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"(CNN) -- As though there were not enough tumult in Egypt.",
"A year after revolution felled a longtime dictator, a new crisis has soured its strongest Western ally and threatened to sever military aid.",
"Egyptian authorities had been investigating civil society organizations for a while but they stunned U.S. officials by announcing this week that 43 foreigners, including 19 Americans, working for civil society organizations would face prosecution.",
"Egyptian officials blamed ongoing unrest in their country on foreign interference.",
"Authorities carried out 17 raids on the offices of 10 organizations including the U.S.-based Freedom House, National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute.",
"Among those going to court is Sam LaHood, son of Ray LaHood, the transportation secretary.",
"Not a wise decision by the Egyptians, said journalist Ashraf Khalil, author of \"Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution.\"",
"\"You never ever mess with the son of a (government official),\" Khalil said.",
"\"I never expected foreigners would be sent to trial.",
"I started to think that maybe they really believe these people are spies.\"",
"Khalil was not alone in his reaction.",
"Several analysts said they were surprised the Egyptians chose to provoke America at such a critical juncture in their post-revolutionary journey; to bite the proverbial hand that feeds them.",
"What makes this crisis even tougher is that there are no easy solutions to stave off tensions.",
"The Egyptians say the pro-democracy organizations had received illegal foreign financing and were operating without a proper license.",
"But some of the groups had been tacitly operating for some time in Egypt without permission, even under Hosni Mubarak.",
"State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the groups targeted did not fund candidates or parties.",
"\"There is nothing new in their activities,\" she said.",
"Washington viewed the move as a crackdown on democracy and threatened to cut off more than $1.3 billion in military aid that was conditioned on Egypt's progress in transitioning to democracy.",
"Top officials including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lashed out.",
"And 41 members of Congress urged the administration to withhold further aid to Egypt until authorities allow the offices of the targeted organizations re-open.",
"\"We have underscored how serious a problem these actions are.",
"We have said clearly that these actions could have consequences for our relationship, including regarding our assistance programs,\" White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Monday.",
"Nuland declined to speculate about possible consequences but said the dispute \"is a very, very difficult situation in terms of the support we want to provide Egypt.\"",
"The drama continued Tuesday when Sen. John McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told CNN that an Egyptian military delegation visiting Washington had canceled meetings with senior American lawmakers at the last moment and returned to Egypt.",
"McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, did not give a reason why the Egyptians backed out but it wasn't hard to guess.",
"\"What is happening now is that both sides have painted themselves in a corner and they don't have an easy way to get out,\" said Marina Ottaway, a senior associate at the Middle East Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.",
"The Egyptians have now made a legal case and the Americans will find it difficult to tell them to interfere with the work of the judiciary when they are trying to push democracy, Ottaway said.",
"One Egyptian official told the Al-Ahram newspaper: \"Americans cannot preach to us night and day about the need to abide by the rule of law and then ask us to break the law to serve their interests.\"",
"The United States entree into Egypt is through its military leadership -- Washington has no relationship with the political leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has a majority in Egypt's parliament.",
"So it cannot afford to simply cut off Egypt, Ottaway said.",
"At the same time, Egypt must find a way to expedite legitimate trial and release the Americans to protect its relationship with Washington.",
"Ottaway said the military often blames foreign forces in having a hidden hand in anti-government protests.",
"\"This is what the military is doing,\" she said.",
"\"Unfortunately, they are not blaming some nebulous group.",
"It's a big mess.\" The crisis may also have been fueled in part by the a great sense of nationalism on the government's part, said Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations.",
"\"It's better in the short term to be seen as standing up to the Americans,' she said.",
"In recent days protesters have returned to Cairo's Tahrir Square, demanding an end to military rule.",
"Some of those protests, in the wake of soccer riots that killed 79 people, have turned deadly.",
"\"As the situation continues to be very unsettled in Egypt, the powers that be will look for a scapegoat,\" Coleman said.",
"\"Blame your problems on outside powers.",
"That's how it has been throughout history.\"",
"Accusing activists of receiving foreign funds is not new, either.",
"Under Mubarak, dissident Saad Eddin Ibrahim was accused of using European Union money for election monitoring.",
"He was tried twice before a higher court dismissed the case.",
"Khalil, who covered Ibrahim's trial, said he believes the Egyptian courts will back down on the foreigners.",
"\"I think the Egyptians understand the depth of the hornet's nest,\" he said.",
"But what Khalil fears most are the consequences for a half-dozen Egyptian pro-democracy groups that have also been accused of receiving foreign money.",
"They are not the ones in the spotlight, he said.",
"But they are the ones who will feel the wrath of authorities the most.",
"CNN's Ted Barrett contributed to this report."
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"Egyptian authorities crack down on foreign organizations .",
"Among those facing trial are 19 Americans .",
"Angry U.S. lawmkers threaten to cut off military aid to Egypt .",
"Many are surprised by Egypt's provocation but see no easy way out ."
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"Hong Kong (CNN) -- Shares in Asia slumped on Monday on fears the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il could lead to instability on the divided Korean peninsular.",
"South Korea's Kospi Index fell 4.9% to 1,750.60 in mid-morning trading in Seoul before climbing slightly to 1,766,82 to be 4% off by midday.",
"Key stocks tumbled, with Samsung Electronics, the largest stock on the Kospi, falling 3.5% and LG Display, the world's second largest panel maker, down 7.2% in early trading.",
"Already battered by fears that possible credit downgrades in European countries could derail a solution to the euro zone debt crisis, Asian markets fell across the board.",
"Enigmatic North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies at the age of 69 .",
"At the open, Japan's Nikkei 225 index was down 1.1 % at 8,304.47, Hong Kong's Hang Seng slid 2.5%t to 17,833.42 and the Shanghai Composite Index fell 2.6% to 2,167.68.",
"June Park, senior economist at Meritz Securities, told Reuters.com the death of Kim Jong Il had rattled investor confidence.",
"\"This is definitely negative factor for markets with no detailed information on his death.",
"It will drive the stock markets lower and the Korean won to depreciate sharply as geopolitical risks are rising and foreign investors could withdraw money out of South Korea,\" she said.",
"With South Korea's military on \"high alert\" and South Korea's President Lee Myun Bak convening a national security council meeting, Markets in Taiwan, the prospect of further instability caused by succession problems in North Korea also weighed on markets across the region.",
"Markets in Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia also fell.",
"Chung Young-Tae of the Korea Institute of National Unification was quoted by Reuters.com as saying that while the death was not unexpected, what happens next will be \"very important.\"",
"While Kim's son, Kim Jong Un, is widely believed to have been groomed as a successor, no official announcement has been made.",
"\"Kim Jong-un is not yet the official heir, but the regime will move in the direction of Kim Jong-un taking center stage,\" he said.",
"\"There is a big possibility that a power struggle may happen.",
"\"It's likely the military will support Kim Jong-un,\" he added."
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"Death of North Korean leader rattles markets across the region .",
"South Korea's Kospi index slides almost 5% at the open .",
"Markets from Australia to Japan also sink on the news .",
"Concerns grow over succession struggle in North Korea ."
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"LONDON, England (SuperYachtWorld) -- It may be named after the high-octane James Bond thriller, but does the latest offering from enthusiastic owner John Staluppi hit the jackpot?",
"Bond style: Casino Royale is the latest in a series of 007-inspired super-yachts.",
"\"Casino Royale\" was the first action-packed novel by Ian Fleming, paving the way for 11 more spy novels, and a catalogue of iconic films charting the adventures of secret service agent James Bond.",
"But it is also the name of the very latest in a line of yachts owned by renowned yachtsman John A. Staluppi -- all of which have been named after one of the Bond tales.",
"They may well be tributes to 007, but Octopussy, Moonraker, Thunderball and The World is Not Enough are also some of the fastest super-yachts in the world.",
"Octopussy was built in Holland and Moonraker in Norway, both from plans drawn by the innovative Dutch naval architect Frank Mulder, and Thunderball was designed and built by Dennison Yachts in Fort Lauderdale.",
"To build The World is Not Enough, John created Millennium Superyachts in 1998, a company that will be a vehicle for future builds.",
"It was the 43.5 meter Octopussy, which broke the 50-knot barrier 18 years ago, that first brought the name of New York-born John Staluppi to the attention of super-yacht aficionados.",
"The self-made millionaire left school when he was 16 and worked as a mechanic in Brooklyn before going on to start up one of the most successful car dealerships in North America -- a business that enabled him to indulge his passion for racing fast boats, and then later for super-yachts.",
"To build Casino Royale, Millennium Yachts has teamed up with the U.S.-based Christensen Shipyard, describing the new launch as the first of its \"Millennium editions.\"",
"Joe Foggia, president of Christensen Yachts, explains: \"She has over 650 square meters of space on board -- that's a lot in a yacht of her length.\"",
"There is no doubt that John's vision and passion bring fervor and excitement to a sometimes conservative industry.",
"There are, after all, few super-yachts aboard which you will be greeted by frosted-glass panels sweeping down the central staircase, delicately etched with the silhouettes of Bond girls.",
"And then there's the hand-crafted marble roulette wheel set into the deck of the main saloon, made by master-craftsman John Homchick at Christensen's dedicated marble shop.",
"Casino Royale isn't a speed machine to match his previous yachts but, as we chatted on the deck of his latest creation, it's very clear that John Staluppi is an owner who knows just want he wants.",
"\"So what is a super-yacht?",
"To me, it has to be at least 120 feet overall with a master suite and four guest cabins, room for six crew and somewhere to carry the tender.",
"\"And oh, one more thing, there has to be no teak.",
"It adds weight, it's a pain in the butt to clean, and the oil gets all over my carpeting!\"",
"he says with a smile.",
"We look around and notice the acres of teak decking -- it's stunning, so perhaps this is one fight he's better off not winning.",
"The yacht's interior can best be described as richly ornate, yet it remains tasteful and has the softer touch of John's wife Jeanette in many of the living areas.",
"Atop the divide sits a figurine of Vesper Lynd, the heroine from Casino Royale.",
"In terms of accommodation, John has achieved the optimal use of space he was looking for.",
"The master stateroom is accessed through the owner's study with its dark, leather-topped mahogany desk and cream leather office chair.",
"As you may expect from a James Bond fan, a gargantuan double bed dominates with a mirrored deck head above.",
"Below, the guest cabins are equally well-appointed and appear to be larger than the standard on most yachts of this size.",
"Forward are two twin cabins; astern of them two suites with king-size bunks and further aft is a stunning full-beam VIP suite.",
"Two decks above is the elegant sky lounge -- a party room if ever we saw one.",
"The onyx-topped bar is seductively illuminated from within the stonework and is a perfect spot to enjoy a vodka martini or two.",
"The lounge also has a custom-designed entertainment center and a huge cinema display with a movie library that fittingly boasts every one of Commander Bond's adventure-packed movies.",
"Captain Zak Matten is pleased with the work so far: \"I really like the way her bow and stern thruster work together.",
"I can get her to move just about anywhere.",
"I can even shift her sideways when I have to.",
"\"Her maiden voyage was up into Alaska and we encountered our fair share of lumpy seas.",
"This U.S.-built boat can hold her head up when compared to European yachts; she is up there with the best.\"",
"She may not have the speed of her predecessors in the Staluppi stable but Casino Royale is nevertheless an impressive yacht.",
"She will bring her owners a lot of enjoyment, and for the guests who are lucky enough to be invited on board the party is about to begin.",
"Boat information Length overall: 49.70 meters (163ft 0in) Engines: Twin MTU 12V 4000 Series Naval architect: Christensen Shipyard Exterior styling: Christensen Shipyard Interior designer: Jeanette Staluppi & Carol Williamson Associates Owner's project manager: Zak Matten Broker who introduced the client: Ocean Independence Speed (max): 18 knots Speed (cruise): 10 knots Range at 10 knots: 4,300 nautical miles .",
"Subscribe to SuperYachtWorld .",
"COPYRIGHT © 2009 IPC MEDIA LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ."
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"Casino Royale is the latest in a series of James Bond-inspired vessels .",
"The super-yacht is almost 50m long and was built at Christensen Shipyard .",
"It includes a pool, bars, a bedroom with roof mirrors, and numerous televisions ."
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"(CNN) -- There's a pretty good chance that you missed Madonna's first film as writer-director, the low budget London comedy \"Filth and Wisdom.\"",
"Her second will be harder to avoid -- it's a handsomely produced British heritage picture with James D'Arcy as King Edward VIII and Andrea Riseborough as Wallis Simpson -- but nevertheless you should make every effort to do so.",
"This flimsy vanity project cruelly exposes the Material Girl's limitations.",
"It's a tedious, vapid, threadbare movie that only a superstar could get made -- or would want to.",
"For reasons we can only guess at, Madonna evidently identifies with Mrs. Simpson, the American divorcee vilified by the British press in the late 1930s when she stole the heart of the world's most eligible bachelor, Edward Windsor, the Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne.",
"(Despite his laddish demeanor, Madonna's second ex-husband, \"Sherlock Holmes\" director Guy Ritchie, came from a line of blue-bloods and baronets.)",
"The Brits had no shortage of reasons to dislike Wallis; some valid, some pure snobbery.",
"Not only was this foreigner married when the affair got started, and already a divorcee, she was also rather unattractive by conventional standards.",
"A plain Jane with mannish features who was inappropriately frank about her social-climbing aspirations.",
"As if that wasn't enough she was also on chummy terms with members of Hitler's inner circle and, salacious gossip suggests, an expert in the Oriental arts of lovemaking (though Madonna's having none of that, the movie is perversely sexless).",
"A less suitable match was hard to imagine, and in the constitutional crisis that followed, Edward was forced to abdicate in favor of his stammering sibling, Bertie.",
"In other words, Mrs Simpson's hardly your typical \"cause célèbre,\" though that doesn't stop Madonna from painting her as a feminist heroine in \"the greatest love story of the 20th century.\"",
"In this high-gloss version of events, Wallis is an abused woman (viciously beaten by her boorish first husband), who compensates for her physical shortcomings with her sense of style, quick feet on the dance floor and candid American wit (not that we hear any).",
"As for Edward, history's naïve, racist and foolhardy womanizer is recast as a debonair sophisticate and improbable champion of the working classes.",
"In the film's most egregious line, Wallis greets her royal suitor with an oh-so-casual, \"I've been reading that book you recommended about social reform.\"",
"Right, and they dedicated the rest of their days to helping the orphans in Africa too.",
"In a parallel modern-day story that manages to be even more dramatically suspect, Abbie Cornish is Wally Winthrop, the neglected wife of a handsome, philanthropic doctor (Richard Coyle) who won't sleep with her and drives her to futile in-vitro fertilization injections (filmed in wobbly shlock-horror close-ups).",
"Obsessed with her namesake, Wally spends several eons wandering through a Sotheby's exhibition of the Duke and Duchess' artifacts, catching the eye of a studly security guard (Oscar Isaac), an ex-Russian intellectual who borrows the royals' dinner service for an impromptu date dressed in a kilt and a bearskin hat.",
"In superstar circles this is what passes for romance.",
"Despite these absurdities, \"W.E.\"",
"is nicely packaged and photographed.",
"Andrea Riseborough miraculously makes Wallis Simpson more interesting than this hagiography allows, especially when she starts to regret her great conquest as the trappings of wealth turn claustrophobic.",
"There are inklings of a real movie in this somber coda, but the interminable modern scenes remain desperately trite, and just because Madonna thinks it's OK to turn a blind eye to fascism, there's no reason to follow suit.",
"As Queen Victoria is supposed to have said, \"We are not amused.\""
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"Despite these absurdities, \"W.E.\"",
"is nicely packaged and photographed .",
"Andrea Riseborough miraculously makes Wallis Simpson interesting ."
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"(CNN) -- World number one Novak Djokovic beat Croat Ivan Dodig 6-4 6-3 at the Paris Masters on Wednesday, a win which earned the Serb a check for $1.6 million.",
"A shoulder injury had cast doubt over Djokovic's participation in the French tournament, with the 24-year-old having already pulled out of last month's Shanghai Masters.",
"The top seed would have been entitled to a $2m bonus for ending the year at number one in the world rankings, but that figure is subject to the player having featured in all eight of the Masters 1000 events on the ATP Tour.",
"The bonus had already been reduced to $1.6m due to Djokovic's absence in China, and would have been wiped out altogether had he failed to play in France.",
"But Djokovic was fit to take to the court at the indoor tournament, revealing his pleasure at being able to play in front of the Paris crowd.",
"\"I think it's one of the most entertaining indoor tournaments,\" Djokovic told the ATP Tour's official website.",
"\"People are coming in numbers here to watch matches.",
"I like playing it.\"",
"World No. 3 Andy Murray is also safely into the third round courtesy of a 6-2 6-4 defeat of home-crowd favorite Jeremy Chardy in the French capital.",
"The victory was second seed Murray's 16th in-a-row, a run which stretches back to his U.S. Open semifinal defeat to Rafael Nadal and has seen him move above 16-time grand slam winner Roger Federer in the world rankings.",
"Murray converted three of his six break points to seal a fifth career win over world No.",
"110 Chardy and set up a last-16 clash with American Andy Roddick.",
"Federer continued his recent revival with a 6-2 6-3 win over French wildcard Adrian Mannarino.",
"The Swiss clinched his fifth career triumph at the Swiss Indoors in Basel earlier this month, and was in fine form as he dispatched Mannarino in 56 minutes.",
"Fourth seed David Ferrer also earned a straight-sets success against French opposition, advancing beyond qualifier Nicolas Mahut 6-4 6-4.",
"The Spaniard, who is already assured of his place at the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London later this month, faced only two break points on his way to victory in one hour and 27 minutes.",
"Serb Janko Tipsarevic continued his bid to reach the World Tour Finals with a crushing 6-1 6-0 triumph over American Alex Bogomolov Jr. World No.",
"13 Tipsarevic, who must reach the final to stand any chance of competing at the O2 Arena, now faces Tomas Berdych, the Czech who can seal his World Tour Finals berth with victory in the third round clash."
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"Novak Djokovic will collect a $1.6m bonus check for finishing 2011 as world No.1 .",
"Djokovic defeated Croat Ivan Dodig to reach second round of the Paris Masters .",
"Second seed Andy Murray through after win over Jeremy Chardy .",
"16-time grand slam winner Roger Federer also victorious on Wednesday ."
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"(CNN) -- The Philippine authorities have significantly revised down the death toll from a strong earthquake that shook the country's third-largest island on Monday.",
"The state-run Philippines News Agency had reported Tuesday that the number of people killed by the 6.7-magnitude quake off the coast of Negros had climbed to 48.",
"It cited the Philippine Army, which was basing the figure on information from local government units.",
"But PNA later reported that the army had reduced the total to 22 confirmed dead after it \"learned that not all believed dead in various towns and cities were accounted for.\"",
"The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council on Wednesday put the official death toll at 26, with 71 people still missing.",
"The quake in the central Philippines on Monday damaged houses, churches and many other buildings.",
"It also set off landslides and has left at least 10 bridges unusable.",
"The area near the quake continued to be rattled by aftershocks Wednesday.",
"The Philippines is situated in the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.",
"CNN's Karen Smith contributed to this report."
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"State media had cited the Philippine Army as saying the death toll was 48 .",
"But Army later reduced the total to 22 after learning that not all the dead had been confirmed .",
"The government disaster agency puts the current death toll at 26, with 71 still missing .",
"The area where the quake struck on Monday continues to be rattled by aftershocks ."
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"(CNN) -- The author of a new tell-all book claims she lost her virginity to President John F. Kennedy when she was a 19-year-old White House intern, and that the affair lasted 18 months.",
"The book, \"Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath,\" will be available Wednesday, but CNN was able to buy a copy Monday.",
"The alleged affair began in the summer of 1962, while Mimi Alford worked in the White House press office.",
"She met Kennedy four days into her internship, and was invited for a personal tour of the residence a day later by the commander-in-chief after being served daiquiris, she says in Chapter 4 of the book.",
"\"Slowly, he unbuttoned the top of my shirtdress and touched my breasts,\" Alford said in the book.",
"\"Then he reached up between my legs and started to pull off my underwear.",
"I finished unbuttoning my shirtdress and let it fall off my shoulders.\"",
"\"After he finished, he hitched up his pants and smiled at me\" pointing her to the bathroom.",
"\"I was in shock,\" she writes.",
"\"He, on the other hand, was matter-of-fact, and acted as if what had just occurred was the most natural thing in the world.\"",
"The White House arranged for a car for her, she said.",
"On the ride home, it \"kept echoing in my head: I'm not a virgin anymore.\"",
"\"In an era when women in the workplace were still considered 'girls,' Mimi was literally a girl herself -- naive, innocent, emotionally unprepared for the thrill that came when the president's charisma and power were turned on her full-force,\" according to the website of the book's publisher, Random House.",
"\"She was also unprepared for the feelings of isolation that would follow as she fell into the double life of a college student who was also the secret lover of the most powerful man in the world.\"",
"Fifty years later, Alford is now a 69-year-old grandmother and retired New York City church administrator, the Post reported.",
"Following Kennedy's assassination, Alford \"grieved in private, locked her secret away and tried to start her life anew, only to find that her past would cast a long shadow -- and ultimately destroy her relationship with the man she married,\" Random House said.",
"In 2003, a Kennedy biographer mentioned \"a tall, slender, beautiful 19-year-old college sophomore and White House intern, who worked in the press office\" when referencing one of the president's affairs, the publisher's website said.",
"\"The disclosure set off a tabloid frenzy and soon exposed Mimi and the secret that she had kept for 41 years.\"",
"The publisher describes the book as \"a new and personal depiction of one of our most iconic leaders and a powerful, moving story of a woman coming to terms with her past and moving out of the shadows to reclaim the truth.\"",
"CNN's Dominique Dodley contributed to this report."
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"Mimi Alford is now a 69-year-old grandmother .",
"The author says her affair with John F. Kennedy lasted 18 months .",
"\"I'm not a virgin anymore,\" Alford recounts after first encounter with Kennedy .",
"The alleged affair took place in the summer of 1962, according to her book ."
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"(CNN) -- Kim Clijsters returned to competitive action on the WTA Tour with a convincing straight sets win over Simona Halep in Brisbane Sunday.",
"The Belgian has not played on the circuit since August after a 2011 ruined by a series of injuries, but showed no sign in a 6-1 6-4 victory.",
"\"I felt that I was playing aggressively and moving well.",
"I was pretty satisfied,\" Clijsters told the official tournament website.",
"Clijsters, the 2010 champion in Brisbane, is using the tournament as build-up to her defense of the Australian Open crown.",
"The 28-year-old claimed her fourth grand slam title in Melbourne last January, but an ankle injury hampered her French Open campaign, where she was beaten in the second round, and she missed Wimbledon.",
"Returning ahead of the U.S. Open, Clijsters then suffered an abdominal problem, which ruled her out of her title defense.",
"After beating Romanian Halep, she said that the injury was no longer hampering her service.",
"The curse of women's No.1?",
"\"I felt confident with my serve.",
"I think that's something that, in the past, wasn't always the case.\"",
"Four breaks of service always had her 47th-ranked opponent on the back foot and she will next play either former World No.1 Ana Ivanovic or Austria's Tamira Paszek in the second round.",
"13-time grand slam winner Serena Williams is also on the comeback trail at the joint ATP/WTA tournament, playing for the first time since her dramatic September 11 loss to Samantha Stosur in the U.S. Open final.",
"Williams opens Monday against South African Chanelle Scheepers and could face home hope Stosur in the semifinals.",
"In men's action Sunday, third seed Alexandr Dolgopolov of the Ukraine eased past Alejandro Falla of Colombia 7-6 6-2.",
"Top seed Andy Murray of Britain will begin his campaign Tuesday, playing his first match since choosing Ivan Lendl as his full-time coach."
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"Kim Clijsters returns to WTA circuit with straight sets win .",
"Belgian favorite beats Simona Halep 6-1 6-4 in Brisbane .",
"Former World No.1 Serena Williams returns to action Monday .",
"Andy Murray tops the men's seeds in Queensland ."
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"Charlottesville, Virginia (CNN) -- Jurors at the trial of a University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of fatally beating his ex-girlfriend were asked by a defense attorney Wednesday to consider only an involuntary manslaughter conviction.",
"Attorney Francis Lawrence, in his opening statement, contended that would be appropriate because the death was an accident.",
"George Huguely currently faces charges including first-degree murder in the death of Yeardley Love, who also was a lacrosse player for the university.",
"University of Virginia law professor Darryl Brown told InSession that involuntary manslaughter in the state carries a maximum 10-year sentence.",
"Huguely has been held for two years.",
"But prosecutors, in their opening statement, said Huguely made an e-mail threat against Love, 22, before her May 2010 death.",
"Prosecutor Warner D. Chapman read e-mails exchanged between the two after Huguely learned Love had allegedly slept with someone else.",
"The defendant wrote, \"I should have killed you\" and Love responded, \"You should have killed me?\"",
"according to Chapman.",
"Huguely responded that the pair should talk, Chapman said.",
"Chapman also told jurors Love's death was slow and painful and that she could have remained alive for a couple of hours after Huguely left her apartment.",
"The defense also claims Love was alive when Huguely left.",
"Charlottesville Police Detective Lisa Reeves wrote in a sworn statement used to obtain a search warrant in the case that \"George Huguely admitted on May 3, 2010, that he was involved in an altercation with Yeardley Love and that during the course of the altercation he shook Love and her head repeatedly hit the wall.\"",
"But defense attorney Lawrence said there was no evidence that Love's head hit a wall.",
"Lawrence said Huguely refused to believe Love was dead when questioned by police.",
"Police were initially called to Love's off-campus Charlottesville apartment by a roommate who reported \"a possible alcohol overdose,\" Police Chief Tim Longo said at the time.",
"\"It was quickly apparent to them this young lady was the victim of something far worse,\" Longo said.",
"A medical examiner ruled that blunt force trauma killed Love, and authorities allege Huguely caused it during the altercation.",
"Love had \"a large bruise on the right side of her face which appears to have been caused by blunt force trauma,\" according to the police sworn statement.",
"Huguely admitted he kicked open the door to Love's bedroom after he found her apartment door unlocked, according to the detective's affidavit.",
"He also admitted he took her computer from her apartment, Reeves wrote.",
"It was later found by police after Huguely told them where he disposed of it, she said.",
"The trial is expected to last two weeks.",
"InSession's Lena Jakobsson contributed to this report."
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"Jurors hear differing accounts of Virginia student's 2010 death .",
"Prosecution contends defendant fatally injured Yeardley Love during a fight .",
"George Huguely's defense calls the death an accident .",
"The suspect and victim were members of UVA's highly ranked lacrosse teams ."
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"Mountain View, California (CNN) -- Meet Evernote CEO Phil Libin, who runs a software company based here in Silicon Valley that has been on a hot streak.",
"Last month, the company launched an iPhone application, called Evernote Food, that lets users keep track of favorite recipes and restaurants.",
"It was an instant hit.",
"Evernote also released an iPad app, called Skitch, for drawing and annotating on images.",
"It has skyrocketed from 200,000 to 5 million users since Evernote acquired the startup behind the technology in August.",
"All of Evernote's apps tie into its online note-taking and file-storage service.",
"It has 21 million users, of which nearly a million pay for access to more storage space and capabilities, Libin said.",
"The company's major growth left executives scurrying for a place to fit all of its new employees.",
"They will move into a much larger headquarters in nearby Redwood City, California, in the next few months, Libin said.",
"\"We want to be the Zynga of getting stuff done,\" Libin told CNN, referring to the maker of such hit social-network games as \"FarmVille\" and \"Words with Friends.\"",
"\"I think that's really what we're becoming.\"",
"Despite the successes, Evernote's most ambitious recent project hasn't immediately taken off.",
"Evernote Hello, a quirky iPhone app for exchanging contact information that launched at the same time as the Food app, has not gotten off to a terrific start.",
"It's billed as a replacement for business cards and address books, asking users to hand their phones over to strangers who then input their e-mail addresses and phone numbers and snap head shots to help them pair a face with the name.",
"CNET, the CBS-owned technology website, covered it under the headline, \"Evernote Hello shares cooties and contacts.\"",
"Another tech blog, ReadWriteWeb, called it \"an app only Sheldon Cooper would love,\" a reference to the fictional nerd from the CBS show \"The Big Bang Theory.\"",
"Libin, who does bear some resemblance to the TV character played by actor Jim Parsons, said Evernote is making changes in response to user feedback.",
"For example, the app should allow users to snap a picture of a business card using the iPhone's camera and automatically input the information from it -- like LinkedIn's CardMunch, Libin said.",
"It may also let two people who have the app running exchange contact info wirelessly in a process similar to the Bump app, he said.",
"Users will also have the option of inputting the data themselves manually, rather than handing the phone over to a new acquaintance, Libin said.",
"However, he defended his original concept, saying that people take better pictures of themselves when they are controlling the camera.",
"\"Your photo booth instincts kick in,\" Libin said.",
"\"You just get better photos.",
"But whatever.\" During an interview at Evernote's headquarters last week, I handed Libin my phone and asked him to input his contact information into the Hello app.",
"He winced and observed that the app has already advanced so far beyond the publicly available version I was using that it was barely recognizable to him.",
"Libin describes the alphabetical organization of most contact lists as outdated, a remnant from when people's names and numbers were printed on linear pages.",
"Perhaps the last mainstream innovation in address books came in 2007 when Apple introduced a favorites list to the iPhone.",
"Evernote Hello shows contacts in a mosaic of people's faces.",
"\"Your brain doesn't remember things alphabetically,\" Libin said.",
"A new version of Evernote Hello will be available in the next few weeks, Libin said.",
"It should bring the product closer to Libin's original concept of supplanting the address book by giving it a 21st-century update and merging it with your calendar.",
"\"It's sort of as if your address book, your calendar and your camera had a love child,\" Libin said.",
"Part of the inspiration for Evernote Hello came from Libin's own inability to remember people by name, he said.",
"Still, the app has a long way to go.",
"As Libin tweaks his pet project, Evernote developers are working on at least two more apps to be released this year.",
"One is for keeping a to-do list, and another is for organizing travel tips, Libin said.",
"\"Hello is really ambitious, and it's going to take us a long time to get it right,\" Libin said.",
"\"But it's the one I think has the most potential to change things.\""
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"(CNN) -- A ticker tape parade awaits the New York Giants this week when the team returns home as Super Bowl champions after defeating the New England Patriots 21-17 on a last-minute touchdown.",
"The Super Bowl victory Sunday night was the fourth for the Giants; the team defeated the Patriots 17-14 in the 2008 title game.",
"New England fans who had hoped their team would avenge the 2008 loss were left crestfallen.",
"But for Giants supporters, the celebration was just beginning.",
"Early Monday, the Empire State Building was bathed in Giants blue.",
"Later in the day, New York City will conduct a public giveaway for 250 winners for a post-parade ceremony on Tuesday at City Hall Plaza where the team will be given keys to the city.",
"\"After nearly missing the playoffs, the Giants have made history by becoming the first NFL team to win the Super Bowl after going 9-7 in the regular season,\" New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said after the Sunday night win.",
"\"I look forward to celebrating this victory with all New Yorkers.\"",
"Clutching the championship trophy, Giants quarterback Eli Manning, the MVP award winner, said \"I just stayed positive\" during the seesaw struggle.",
"Assisted by crucial late receptions by Mario Manningham, Manning marched the Giants down the field in the closing minutes of the game.",
"The go-ahead touchdown was scored by running back Ahmad Bradshaw from 6 yards out with 52 seconds remaining.",
"But the Patriots and Tom Brady, who was vying for his fourth championship ring, weren't quite done.",
"They moved the ball, but had only enough time for a \"Hail Mary\" pass that bounced away from receivers in the end zone.",
"After trailing the Patriots 17-9 early in the third quarter, the Giants put up the last 12 points of the game to win 21-17.",
"In the final three minutes of the game, Twitter saw an average of 10,000 tweets per second, the company said.",
"An estimated 111 million U.S. TV viewers were expected to tune in to the game.",
"Exact figures were not available early Monday morning.",
"As in years past, many watched as much for the ads and the halftime show as for the game itself.",
"Halftime entertainer Madonna provided an eclectic set, morphing from a Roman Empire theme to a high school cheerleader, complete with pom poms and a marching band.",
"She led a collection of performers through a medley that included \"Vogue,\" \"Music,\" \"Like a Prayer\" and \"Give Me All Your Luvin.'\"",
"But it was a guest performance by artist M.I.A.",
"that generated most of the show's buzz.",
"She gave network cameras a middle finger salute, while rapping \"I don't give a sh*t.\" The apologies from the NFL and the broadcaster, NBC, came quickly -- they blamed each other.",
"\"There was a failure in NBC's delay system,\" said Brian McCarty, the league's vice president of communications.",
"\"The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing, and we apologize to our fans.\"",
"\"The NFL hired the talent and produced the halftime show,\" NBC said.",
"\"Our system was late to obscure the inappropriate gesture and we apologize to our viewers.\"",
"The episode was reminiscent of the 2004 Super Bowl when singer Janet Jackson's nipple was briefly exposed during a performance with singer Justin Timberlake.",
"The American president who saved football .",
"A bevy of celebrities, including Jerry Seinfeld, Clint Eastwood and Elton John, showed up in commercials during this year's broadcast.",
"David Beckham provided eye candy in an H&M underwear ad, which tended to spend more time on his chiseled and tattooed looks than the briefs he was wearing.",
"Another commercial featured a slimmed-down dog chasing after a Volkswagen Beetle.",
"The ads went for a record $3.5 million per 30-second spot.",
"Pop singer Kelly Clarkson started off the festivities with a rendition of \"The Star-Spangled Banner,\" managing to get through the lyrics without a hitch, unlike Christina Aguilera, who caught flak after botching the words at last year's game.",
"What does Indianapolis have to offer?",
"The city itself strove to prove it could be a major player.",
"It kept one key goal in mind.",
"\"I honestly think the best report would be people saying, 'The game was great and -- oh yeah, by the way, Indianapolis was really nice.",
"I had a really good time,' \" said Tom Griswold, longtime co-host of the Indy-based syndicated radio program \"The Bob & Tom Show.\"",
"CNN's Thom Patterson and Dan Moriarty and HLN's Jonathan Anker contributed to this report."
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"flips her middle finger in a hafltime show guest appearance .",
"Quarterback Eli Manning is named game MVP in the 21-17 thriller ."
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"London (CNN) -- Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libya's deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi, could go on trial \"within weeks or months,\" the country's interior minister said Sunday.",
"The investigations into the death of Moammar Gadhafi after his capture last year could also be completed soon, Fawzy Abdilal said.",
"Saif al-Islam's case will be handed to the courts as soon as the prosecutor general completes his investigations, Abdilal told CNN in an exclusive interview.",
"Separately, military trials of those who \"committed criminal acts under the Gadhafi regime\" began Sunday in the city of Benghazi, National Transitional Council member Mohammed El Sayah said.",
"He did not name those who were being tried, but said \"even civilians who had guns and fought under the Gadhafi regime\" would be tried before military courts.",
"Trials elsewhere in the country will start later, he said.",
"Benghazi was the center of resistance to the Gadhafi regime last year.",
"Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, once his father's heir apparent, was captured in November and has been held in the Libyan city of Zintan since then.",
"Human Rights Watch said after visiting Saif al-Islam in custody last year that he should have a lawyer, but Abdilal implied he had not asked for one.",
"\"He may have a lawyer if he asks for a lawyer,\" the interior minister said.",
"\"Should Saif demand a lawyer, then a lawyer would be provided.\"",
"He also brushed aside accusations that authorities are torturing detainees under the new government.",
"There are \"not systematic violations as there were under the Gadhafi regime,\" he said, even as he conceded that \"there may be cases of individuals who take the law into their own hands.\"",
"\"There is no comparison whatsoever between the situation prevailing under Moammar Gadhafi and the situation now,\" he said.",
"Moammar Gadhafi was killed in October, two months after he was deposed by rebel fighters.",
"Abdilal said the circumstances of his death were complicated.",
"\"It was a battlefield, he was carrying weapons, there were fighters around, no one was controlling those fighters,\" Abdilal said.",
"And, he said, \"Many people claim that they are the ones who killed Gadhafi, and that is complicating matters.\"",
"Abdilal acknowledged that the interim government had not yet succeeded in integrating militias from different cities into a national security force, saying his visit to Britain was partly to seek help with that task.",
"Fighters from Zintan still control the international airport, he said, adding that he expected them to hand control over to the Ministry of the Interior \"within two weeks.\"",
"CNN's Raja Razek contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Military trials of Gadhafi supporters begin in Benghazi, an NTC member says .",
"Interior Minister Fawzy Abdilal says there is no systematic torture in Libya .",
"Saif al-Islam Gadhafi could have a lawyer if he asks for one, the minister says .",
"Probes into the death of Moammar Gadhafi could also be completed soon, he says ."
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"(CNN) -- The Chinese government has barred the country's airlines from complying with a European Union charge on carbon emissions, escalating a dispute that officials have warned could turn into a trade war.",
"Chinese airlines had previously said they would not pay the EU carbon tax, but the formal prohibition by the State Council, or cabinet, puts Beijing in direct opposition to Brussels.",
"The announcement, published on Monday by Xinhua, the official news agency, comes a week before Chinese and European leaders are to meet at a summit and just days after Wen Jiabao, China's premier, said Beijing was looking to provide more financial support to help Europe out of its debt mess.",
"The Civil Aviation Administration of China has notified all Chinese airlines that, without government approval, they cannot join the EU emissions trading scheme or charge customers extra because of it, Xinhua said.",
"The impact on Chinese airlines with routes to Europe was unclear.",
"Although the EU's carbon scheme went into effect for airlines on January 1, Brussels has not started charging them yet.",
"But all airlines using EU airports have been brought into the scheme.",
"Those that do not comply face fines while persistent offenders could be banned from EU airports.",
"\"China hopes that Europe will directly address our concerns, in light of the overall situation of global climate change, the sustainable development of international aviation and Chinese-European relations,\" the Chinese aviation authority said.",
"It also said the EU should adopt a \"practical and constructive attitude\" to come up with a solution that would be acceptable to both sides.",
"It added what appeared to be a veiled threat: \"China will consider additional measures to protect the interests of our citizens and our companies\".",
"The China Air Transport Association, an industry group, said last year that Beijing might sue the EU over its carbon plan.",
"But the prospect of a legal battle dimmed after the European Court of Justice ruled against a challenge brought by US airlines, saying the carbon trading scheme did not infringe on the sovereignty of other nations.",
"Although the aviation industry only accounts for about 3 per cent of global carbon emissions, its share is growing quickly and the EU believes its carbon trading scheme is an important part of the fight against climate change.",
"Chinese state media have called it a \"trade barrier in the name of environmental protection\" and the foreign ministry has upbraided the EU for its \"unilateral\" imposition of the carbon scheme.",
"When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Beijing last week, Premier Wen said China might contribute more to rescue funds that are aimed at resolving the European debt crisis.",
"Premier Wen is scheduled to meet José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, and other European leaders at a bilateral business summit next week in Beijing."
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"(CNN) -- Did you hear that? It's a door busting open in Washington, unblocking a huge backlog of airline issues that will directly affect America's millions of air travelers.",
"For the first time since 2007, after 23 extensions, Congress has finally passed a long-term funding bill for the FAA.",
"It costs $63 billion and will last through 2015.",
"President Obama is expected to sign it into law.",
"For the millions who fly commercial airlines yearly in the United States, here are five reasons why you should care: .",
"1. Airline tarmac delay rules to be the law of the land .",
"Many of the tarmac delay rules for commercial airlines -- like reporting flight delays and cancellations and providing passengers with adequate food, water and ventilation in planes stuck on the tarmac -- will be more than just rules.",
"They'll be the law of the land, backed with the full enforcement and authority of the federal government.",
"Somehow, not included in the legislation is the three-hour limit on the amount of time planes can remain on the tarmac before they must return to the gate.",
"It's still a regulation.",
"\"There's a concern it might lead to more flight cancellations or delays, so it may need more study before it becomes law,\" said Charlie Leocha of the nonprofit Consumer Travel Alliance.",
"Consumer advocate group FlyersRights.org blames the exclusion on politics.",
"\"House Republicans, in the end, sided with their friends the airlines by forcing removal of the [three-hour tarmac delay limit] in the newly codified law for airline passengers, with total disregard for what's best for the flying public,\" wrote executive director Kate Hanni in an email to CNN.",
"2. Investigation into cell phone use on planes .",
"Is there really a good reason why we can't use our phones on planes?",
"The arguments have long raged on both sides.",
"The new law requires a government study within 120 days to look into the issues surrounding aircraft cell phone use.",
"Speaking of studies: Would airlines lose or damage fewer bags if they had to pay for them?",
"The law orders a study, due in 180 days, to find out.",
"3. Better information about child safety seats, insecticides .",
"Traveling with small children and their safety seats may be a little easier.",
"The new law requires airlines to post on their websites the maximum dimensions of child safety seats that can be used aboard their aircraft.",
"Also, the Department of Transportation must post online a list of countries that force airlines to spray cabins with insecticide.",
"4. Better access to the halls of power .",
"Airline travelers who feel powerless against the system may like the DOT advisory board created under the new law.",
"The Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protection will include appointed officials from airports, airlines, the government and a member specifically to represent consumers.",
"Also, the law creates a DOT phone line and website for consumers to lodge complaints.",
"5. High tech air traffic control systems .",
"The legislation clears the way for the FAA's highly anticipated satellite-based air traffic control system, which promises to make air travel more efficient, less air-polluting and less time-consuming.",
"That system, part of a massive air-traffic overhaul called NextGen, is expected to be put into place about 2020.",
"Other stuff: . -- Federal subsidies for rural airports .",
"The bill trims the embattled $200 million Essential Air Service airport subsidies program, which opponents say is a waste of money.",
"Small rural airports that handle fewer than 10 daily passengers and are less than 175 miles from a major hub airport will no longer qualify for federal operating subsidies.",
"Alaska and Hawaii are exempt from the cuts.",
"-- Smoking . Fourteen years after smoking was banned on domestic flights for U.S. commercial airlines, the law shuts the door on the last bastion for mile-high smokers.",
"Lighting up will no longer be allowed aboard any charter aircraft or other for-profit flights, foreign or domestic, says Leocha.",
"-- Special exemptions for military .",
"The law includes a message to the airlines called a Sense of Congress that nudges industry leaders to consider offering special travel exemptions for military members.",
"Congress is hinting that airlines should cut troops a break on airline rules surrounding luggage and traveling family members.",
"Overall, says Leocha, the new FAA law could end up saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars -- perhaps billions -- \"if only for the ability to plan ahead and coordinate projects in the future.\""
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"Tarmac delay rules now become law, but three-hour delay regulation is not included .",
"$63 billion bill creates aviation consumer protection committee .",
"Studies will look at cell phone use aboard aircraft and compensation for lost bags ."
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"Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's High Court ordered the immediate release Tuesday of six former army officers accused of plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe.",
"The alleged coup plotters have been in prison since 2007, despite several attempts by their lawyers to have them released.",
"Treason carries a death sentence in Zimbabwe.",
"After reading a seven-page ruling, Justice Yunus Omerjee said it was apparent that the defendants should not have been commuted to custody and he said a declaratory order will be issued to that effect.",
"Justice Joseph Musakwa concurred.",
"In July, the High Court dismissed the case because the alleged coup plotters had not been brought to court for trial within six months, as required by law.",
"State prosecutors responded by re-indicting them.",
"The defendants appealed to the High Court to throw out the re-indictment.",
"The man accused of being the ringleader of the alleged coup plot, Albert Matapo, was arrested in 2007, as were six other suspects: Nyasha Zivuku, Oncemore Mazivahona, Emmanuel Marara, Patson Mupfure, Shingirai Mutemachani and Rangarirai Maziofa.",
"They were accused of plotting to violently topple Mugabe and replace him with the country's defense minister, Emerson Mnangagwa.",
"The suspects denied the allegations against them, and one was later released.",
"Their attorneys said if the state wished to pursue the matter, their clients would not be detained.",
"It was not immediately clear what action the state would take."
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"(RealSimple.com) -- Save on Entertaining .",
"Tips from an anonymous caterer .",
"Besides asking friends for recommendations, the best way to find a caterer is to go to a cooking store, like Williams-Sonoma or Sur La Table, and speak to the employees running the demonstrations.",
"Many of them do catering gigs as well, for less than standard local rates.",
"An independent caterer will often be more wallet-friendly than a large company, which can have high minimum requirements (as much as $2,500 per event) and more operating costs, like paying full-time staffers.",
"In contrast, independents are usually amenable to negotiation.",
"So ask for a 10 to 20 percent break, or see if they'll toss in a few more appetizers or another entrée for the same dollar amount.",
"RealSimple.com: Your guide to saving money .",
"If you're having a dinner party, opt for a buffet.",
"Sit-down dinners are more labor-intensive and therefore expensive, as they usually involve multiple courses and preplating.",
"Or host a brunch -- it's up to 40 percent cheaper than dinner, since foods like French toast and crepes are generally low-cost.",
"Or think about throwing a party where you serve just appetizer-type bites and sweets.",
"You'll save at least 30 percent on the overall bill by skipping the entrée altogether (and your guests will be just as happy).",
"Save on Flowers .",
"Tips from an anonymous florist .",
"Stretch your holiday budget with arrangements that contain greens, like fir, pine, and juniper.",
"They're wonderfully aromatic and seasonally appropriate, and they can be half the cost of fresh flowers, since the trees grow in most states and are therefore readily available.",
"Plus, they will probably last around three weeks or more, compared with flowers, which wilt after five to seven days.",
"If you want to include flowers, skip red and white ones (roses and lilies, for example) -- you might pay 30 percent more in December because those are popular holiday colors.",
"If you have your heart set on white flowers, gardenias make attractive holiday decorations.",
"A single stem can run about $10, so buy the entire plant, which could have 10 to 12 blooms, from a nursery for around $25.",
"If you're feeling crafty, head to a nursery that sells Christmas trees.",
"You might score free greenery, because many nurseries cut off the bottoms to reduce the trees' size.",
"The leftover pieces can be ideal for making wreaths, centerpieces, or door decorations.",
"RealSimple.com: Spend money to save money .",
"Save on a Tree . Tips from an anonymous Christmas-tree seller .",
"Yes, you may be in a hurry to start decorating your Douglas fir, but don't forget to negotiate a good price first.",
"You might save 30 to 40 percent, especially if it's the day before Christmas and a lot of stock remains.",
"(Be sure to ask when the last shipment came in, so you get a fresh tree.",
"If it arrived before December 10, that evergreen might not make it through New Year's.)",
"Don't be afraid to ask the seller, \"Can you do better?\"",
"It's all about how nicely you ask.",
"If you sound stubborn and inflexible, many merchants will say no -- and may even mark up the price another 10 percent (prices can change, since they aren't always posted).",
"So keep your Christmas spirit alive and you'll be more likely to bring home a bargain.",
"RealSimple.com: How to save $5,000 this year .",
"Save on Wine . Tips from an anonymous sommelier .",
"People tend to stock up on wine and spirits at the closest store, but that place may not have the best deals.",
"Go to wine-searcher.com (an inventory database of several thousand stores nationwide) and enter the vintage or the wine's name and your ZIP code to find the cheapest retailer in your area.",
"Or fill your \"cellar\" with wines from affordable online retailers, like Zachys.com and Winelibrary.com.",
"Both have a huge inventory and e-mail specials to customers on a weekly basis; you may be able to get discounts of up to 40 percent off or free shipping.",
"Also consider buying bottles from somewhat less prestigious wine-growing regions, such as Oregon; Santa Barbara, California; and France's Loire Valley.",
"These wines are priced up to 50 percent less than their more famous counterparts.",
"A high-quality Bordeaux, for example, costs between $20 and $50, whereas a comparable bottle from the Loire Valley might cost as little as $10.",
"RealSimple.com: How to live on less .",
"Save on Mailing Gifts .",
"Tips from an anonymous shipping-company representative .",
"Shipping rates are often determined by three factors: a package's size, weight, and destination.",
"So if you can fit something into a small box, you could spend less.",
"Use a small to midsize flat-rate U.S.",
"Postal Service priority box ($5.20 to $11) to send compact, heavy items (up to 70 pounds).",
"To keep any shipment as light as possible, use inexpensive packing peanuts or popcorn for cushioning instead of paper, since they're almost weightless.",
"RealSimple.com: Money-saving secrets from the pros .",
"Procrastinators, keep this in mind: About a week before Christmas, some carriers may automatically send packages out next-day within some regions of the country, regardless of whether you paid for expedited service.",
"If you're willing to take the risk, this could pay off big -- saving you $30 to $40 a package.",
"Also, if you're sending a box from one destination to another that's reasonably close -- say, from Long Island, New York, to Scotch Plains, New Jersey -- during the final week before Christmas, you may not have to send it next-day delivery to have it arrive quickly.",
"Send it ground -- it still might arrive on the following day.",
"RealSimple.com: 10 ways to save money with technology .",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of Real Simple - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2011 Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Cut entertaining costs by hiring an independent caterer or having a buffet .",
"Stretch your holiday budget with arrangements that contain greens instead of fresh flowers .",
"A week before Christmas, some carriers may automatically send packages out next-day ."
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"Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's parliament has ratified a 20-year $98 million loan from China to build a defense college, despite objections from members of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party that the poverty-stricken country should prioritize the spending in other ways.",
"Zimbabwe's upper and lower houses of parliament passed the deal late Tuesday after heated debate.",
"Shepherd Mushonga, a member of parliament from Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party, said he was surprised that Chinese companies including Anjin Investments Private Limited -- which has interests in diamonds - had been contracted to construct the college that is being built about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Harare.",
"\"We are talking of a law which says 51% of any business transaction must be for Zimbabweans, but in this deal Chinese have become Zimbabweans,\" said Mushonga in an interview Wednesday, repeating what he had said when opposing the passing of the loan facility in parliament the previous day.",
"Other members of parliament said the country needed to first address the ailing economy before constructing the college.",
"Zimbabwe's minister of defense, Emmerson Mnangagwa, told parliament that the college would offer \"specialized military training and learning of security issues\" taught by senior officials in defense forces and civilians both in the country and from abroad.",
"China has become a close ally of Zimbabwe, standing by it while the West ostracizes President Robert Mugabe for the long-term leader's poor human rights record.",
"In 2008, China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution seeking sanctions against Zimbabwe.",
"Chinese companies have made inroads in Zimbabwe especially in construction industry.",
"Earlier this year, the visiting Chinese vice premier, Wang Qishan, signed about $700 million in loan agreements with Zimbabwe.",
"The loan was the biggest international deal in years for Zimbabwe, which continues to be shunned by the West for its failure to service its external debt which is about $7 billion."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of hurried passengers trying to check in at some of the busiest U.S. airports could soon find themselves in the fast lane.",
"The Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration are expanding their expedited screening initiative known as PreCheck to 28 additional airports this year, it was announced Wednesday.",
"Seven airports across the country have already started the procedures, which allow travelers a faster screening process if they volunteer information about themselves prior to flying.",
"In making the announcement at a news conference at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Homeland Security officials said PreCheck will enable TSA to focus its efforts on passengers the agency knows less about in a more risk-based approach to screening.",
"If the TSA determines a passenger is eligible for expedited screening, \"information will be embedded in the barcode of the passenger's boarding pass,\" according to the department.",
"Passengers who qualify may only rarely have to remove their shoes, jackets and belts, and extract laptops or liquids from bags.",
"\"Good, thoughtful, sensible security by its very nature facilitates lawful travel and legitimate commerce,\" said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.",
"\"The expansion of TSA PreCheck to the nation's busiest airports will increase our security capabilities and expedite the screening process for travelers we consider our trusted partners.\"",
"The \"trusted traveler\" program won't guarantee expedited security screening, officials say.",
"Participants will still be subject to random and unpredictable security measures.",
"PreCheck will be implemented at the busiest U.S. airports throughout the year including, Baltimore/Washington, Boston Logan, Charlotte Douglas, Cincinnati, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, George Bush, Honolulu, Indianapolis, JFK, LaGuardia, Lambert-St. Louis, Louis Armstrong New Orleans, Luis Munoz Marin, Newark Liberty, O'Hare, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix Sky Harbor, Pittsburgh, Portland, Ronald Reagan Washington National, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle-Tacoma, Tampa, Ted Stevens Anchorage and Washington Dulles.",
"The TSA says it will continue expanding to additional airlines and airports beyond those already announced.",
"Officials say more than 336,000 passengers have already been screened through PreCheck lanes affiliated with American Airlines in Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami, Las Vegas and Minneapolis, and with Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, Detroit, Las Vegas and Minneapolis.",
"US Airways, United Airlines and Alaska Airlines will begin operations later this year.",
"\"TSA PreCheck moves us closer to our goal of delivering the most effective and efficient screening by recognizing that most passengers do not pose a threat to security,\" said TSA Administrator John Pistole in a written statement.",
"\"We are pleased to expand this important effort, in collaboration with our airline and airport partners, as we move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to a more intelligence-driven, risk-based transportation security system.\""
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"The expedited screening initiative PreCheck expands to 28 additional airports this year .",
"Boarding passes of approved passengers will include information in a barcode .",
"Officials: Existing PreCheck lines at seven airports have handled more than 336,000 passengers ."
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"Charlottesville, Virginia (CNN) -- A man testified Thursday that he saw former University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely with his arm around the neck of Huguely's then-girlfriend -- an incident that occurred a few months before she was found beaten to death.",
"Michael Burns' testimony highlighted yet another emotional day in the murder trial of Huguely, which began this week.",
"Huguely was arrested in May 2010 on several charges, including first-degree murder, in the death of Yeardley Love.",
"Both the suspect and the victim played lacrosse on nationally ranked Cavaliers' teams.",
"A lacrosse player himself at the University of North Carolina and a friend of Love's, Burns admitted he'd \"hooked up\" a few times with Love, but denied the two had ever dated.",
"On the stand Thursday, Burns recalled being in an off-campus Charlottesville apartment complex where Huguely lived in February 2010 for a party.",
"While there, he said he heard somebody yelling, \"Help me!",
"Help me!\" When he went into a nearby bedroom, Burns testified that he saw Huguely with his arm around Love's neck.",
"\"George was on his back, and Yeardley was on her back ... trying to pull his arm off of her,\" he testified.",
"Soon after Burns came in, he said that the young woman got free and ran out of the room, while Huguely turned to face the wall.",
"\"She said to me ... 'Thank you so much,'\" Burns said.",
"\"She also said she couldn't breathe.",
"She was hysterically crying.\"",
"Several others took the stand to say they'd also seen Love run out of the room, in apparent distress.",
"A couple of days later, Love phoned Burns and told him, \"Everything was OK. George was just being crazy,\" the witness testified.",
"On Wednesday, the first full day with testimony, Huguely's attorney asked the jury to consider only an involuntary manslaughter conviction, saying Love's death was an accident.",
"Huguely has been held for nearly two years.",
"If he's convicted of involuntary manslaughter, the most time he could serve is 10 years.",
"Prosecutors, for their part, said Huguely made an e-mail threat against Love, 22, before her May 2010 death at her residence.",
"Prosecutor Warner D. Chapman read e-mails exchanged between the two after Huguely heard Love had allegedly slept with someone else.",
"The defendant wrote, \"I should have killed you\" and Love responded, \"You should have killed me?\"",
"according to Chapman.",
"Huguely responded that the pair should talk, Chapman said.",
"Chapman also told jurors that Love's death was slow and painful, claiming she could have remained alive for a couple of hours after Huguely left her apartment.",
"The defense also claims Love was alive when Huguely left.",
"Charlottesville Police Detective Lisa Reeves wrote in a sworn statement used to obtain a search warrant in the case that \"George Huguely admitted on May 3, 2010, that he was involved in an altercation with Yeardley Love and, during the course of the altercation, he shook Love and her head repeatedly hit the wall.\"",
"But defense attorney Francis Lawrence said there was no evidence that Love's head hit a wall.",
"A medical examiner ruled that blunt force trauma killed Love, and authorities allege Huguely caused it during the altercation.",
"The trial resumes Friday with a new prosecution witness."
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"while at a Virginia apartment complex .",
"NEW: He testifies he saw George Huguely with his arms around Yeardley Love's neck .",
"NEW: The crying young woman told him \"thank you,\" the witness testifies .",
"Huguely is charged with murdering Love; his lawyers call her death an accident ."
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Illegal diamond mining by Zimbabwean troops is leading to bloodshed and attacks against civilians, said a global watchdog group formed to cut the flow of so-called \"blood diamonds.\"",
"The armed forces also are accused of funneling money from diamond fields to President Robert Mugabe's party.",
"Residents and workers contributed accounts of attacks detailed by the interim findings of the Kimberley Process after a weeklong investigation in Zimbabwe.",
"The probe started days after a Human Rights Watch report accused the nation's armed forces of violently taking over the diamond fields in Marange district and killing about 200 people since last year.",
"Some victims of the clash were buried in mass graves, the report said.",
"Lameck Chiso, 29, said he was stopped at a police checkpoint on his way from work in the diamond fields.",
"\"Three men in army uniform jumped into my car and asked me to drive them back to the mining area,\" Chiso said.",
"They took his money and urged him to praise the \"wonderful job\" the army was doing of restoring order to the Marange diamond area, Chiso added.",
"\"I complied, but they responded by assaulting me with the back of a gun on my back,\" he said.",
"Kimberly Process officials urged the government to demilitarize the diamond fields and investigate the accusations against the military.",
"Tapiwa, 32, who declined to give his last name, said he has scars on his back and head from beatings he got when troops found him in the mining area.",
"Such stories are common, said Georgette Gagnon, director of Human Rights Watch.",
"The organization said more than 100 witnesses, including soldiers and children, were interviewed for its report.",
"\"The police and army have turned this peaceful area into a nightmare of lawlessness and horrific violence,\" Gagnon said.",
"\"Zimbabwe's new government should get the army out of the fields, put a stop to the abuse and prosecute those responsible.\"",
"The money from blood diamonds can end up funding rebel violence, the Kimberley Process group said.",
"Separately, Human Rights Watch has accused the armed forces of funneling money from the fields into ZANU-PF, President Robert Mugabe's party.",
"The government decried some aspects of the report, saying the critics were trying to smear the Mugabe's party.",
"\"I can confirm that there has been illegal mining taking place in Zimbabwe, but we seem to be getting on top of the situation now,\" said Kembo Mohadi, Zimbabwe's co-minister of home affairs.",
"The government has not been able to verify allegations of deaths and mass graves, Mohadi said.",
"\"As a responsible government, we have started investigating these reports,\" he said, adding that mining proceeds in the cash-strapped nation are not being distributed to any particular group.",
"\"The money will not be handled by any party but by the Treasury,\" he said."
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"Zimbabwean official admits illegal diamond mining taking place .",
"Government unable to verify allegations of deaths and mass graves, official says ."
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- The \"humanitarian situation remains serious\" in Zimbabwe amid cholera, starvation and a continuing economic crisis, a United Nations official said Wednesday at a World Humanitarian Day ceremony in Harare.",
"The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe resulted in nearly 100,000 cases, 4,288 of them fatal, the U.N. said.",
"\"Although Zimbabwe is not facing armed conflict, humanitarian threats such as food shortages and outbreak of diseases such as cholera pose a significant challenge,\" said Agostinho Zacarias, U.N. Development Programme representative in the country.",
"\"The recent [cholera] epidemic resulted in 98,592 cumulative cases, including 4,288 deaths between August 2008 and July 2009.\"",
"Cholera thrives in areas without clean water and proper sanitation, and the United Nations has said 6 million people in Zimbabwe -- more than half the population -- have limited or no access to safe water and sanitation in rural and urban areas.",
"It also estimates more than 5 million in the nation face starvation.",
"Although the cholera epidemic was declared under control last month, a renewed outbreak is likely, international health officials have said.",
"Zimbabwe's humanitarian situation was worsened by its economic collapse last year.",
"The nation's coalition government, formed six months ago by former political enemies President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, is seeking more than $8 billion to aid its recovery.",
"A U.N. appeal launched earlier this year has so far raised only 44 percent of its goal of $718 million for humanitarian assistance.",
"But Rueben Marumahoko, a Zimbabwe junior minister and an appointee of Mugabe, said the country is no longer in crisis.",
"\"There is need for Zimbabwe to move from the humanitarian support stage to the recovery stage,\" he said.",
"\"Zimbabwe is no longer a country in crisis but a country in recovery.\"",
"The comment drew laughter from many journalists covering the event.",
"Among the nation's problems is a strike by doctors that is almost a month old.",
"The doctors are demanding housing and car allowances and a monthly salary of $1,000 [U.S.] -- a sharp rise from the current $170 a month paid to all public servants.",
"Nurses joined the strike this week, saying that doctors have a genuine case that needs urgent attention.",
"The action is threatening the country's ability to deal with H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, and to prepare for the possible resurgence of the cholera epidemic."
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"More than half of the population has limited or no access to safe water, U.N. has said .",
"U.N. appeal for Zimbabwe assistance only 44 percent toward goal .",
"Government's insistence that nation is \"in recovery\" draws laughter from journalists ."
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"(CNN) -- A blizzard that roared through much of the southern Rockies and central Plains tapered off Wednesday, but several states were still expected to deal with heavy snow.",
"Winter weather watches, warnings and advisories were in effect Wednesday for much of the West, according to the National Weather Service.",
"The higher elevations of the Rocky Mountains were expected to get hit the hardest, with some likely to be coated with up to 15 inches of snow in the coming days.",
"Other areas could get eight inches, the weather service said.",
"The storm could make travel on some roads \"very hazardous or impossible,\" the weather service warned.",
"Are you there? Tell us about it . This was the case on some roads Tuesday as blizzard warnings stretched from southeast Colorado through western Kansas, the Oklahoma panhandle and far northern Texas.",
"Interstates and highways were shut down Monday night as at least five states contended with heavy snow, fierce winds and ice.",
"New Mexico State Police shut down Interstate 40, a major east-west artery from Albuquerque to the Texas state line, saying there was zero visibility because of blowing snow.",
"Interstate 25 was shut down from just north of Albuquerque to the Colorado state line because of the blizzard conditions, which included snow-packed and icy roads.",
"One of the many stalled by the storm Tuesday was Linda Martinez, who had planned to take the interstate into New Mexico with her husband and daughter, according to CNN affiliate KXRM.",
"Instead, she was stuck in her car at a gas station in Colorado City staring at the heavy snow gusts.",
"\"We've traveled in storms like this before, but looking at it now, I don't want to chance it,\" Martinez said.",
"CNN Meteorologist Sean Morris contributed to this report ."
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"Up to 15 inches of snow could fall in some areas .",
"Roads are icy in New Mexico .",
"On Tuesday blizzard warnings stretched from Colorado to Texas ."
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"(CNN) -- Germany is expelling four members of the Syrian Embassy, citing the arrest this week of two men suspected of spying on Syrian opposition groups in Germany, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement released Thursday.",
"\"After the arrest of two persons suspected of spying for Syria, I have ordered the expulsion of four members of the Syrian Embassy in Berlin,\" Westerwelle said.",
"The Syrian ambassador was called to the Foreign Office on Monday where the \"German government made clear its position to not accept actions against Syrian members of the opposition in Germany,\" according to the statement.",
"The expulsion comes at a critical time for the Syrian government, which is under fire for a brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrators calling for the end of the regime.",
"Earlier this week, the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (the GCC), a politically and economically aligned group of countries bordering the Persian Gulf, announced it would expel their Syrian ambassadors and withdraw its Gulf State envoys from Syria.",
"Tunisia also announced plans to expel the Syrian ambassador from Tunis in response to the recent killings in Homs, Syria's third-largest city that has become a flashpoint in the 11-month long uprising.",
"In Germany, federal prosecutors announced the arrests of Mahmoud El A., a 47-year-old with German and Lebanese citizenship; and Akram O., a 34-year-old Syrian, who they accused of having \"systematically gathered information on Syrian opposition groups in the Federal Republic of Germany for years.\"",
"Acting on arrest warrants issued January 31, some 70 federal and state police officers also searched the apartment of six other suspects, prosecutors said.",
"The Berlin Prosecutors' Office denied any connection between the suspects arrested Tuesday and those involved in an attack on the Syrian opposition activist and Green Party politician Ferhad Ahma in Berlin last December.",
"The Syrian government has been accused of seeking retribution against relatives of Syrian activists working against the al-Assad regime from abroad.",
"The U.S. State Department announced last year that it had received reports that Syrian mission personnel had been conducting video surveillance of people participating in peaceful demonstrations in the United States.",
"Other Syrian activists living abroad have also declined to be named or appear on camera for fear of reprisals against their families at home.",
"In August, a rebel military leader living in exile in Turkey disappeared from a refugee camp and reappeared days later in Syrian government custody.",
"Evidence also suggested that the government carried out reprisal attacks against the man's family.",
"CNN's Claudia Otto and Christopher Cottrell contributed to this report."
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"Government \"made clear position to not accept actions against Syrian opposition member\"\nExpulsion follows arrest of two men accused of spying for Syria ."
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"(CNN) -- The Indiana Department of Labor on Wednesday announced penalties totaling $80,800 following a worker-safety investigation into a stage collapse last summer that fatally injured seven people and injured dozens of others before a scheduled concert at the Indiana State Fair.",
"The largest fines -- totaling $63,000 for what the agency said were three \"knowing violations\" -- were levied on Mid-America Sound Corp., which built the stage structure and leased it to the fair.",
"Metal scaffolding supporting the stage lights fell onto a crowd of fans and workers as a storm swept through the Indianapolis fairgrounds on August 13, 2011, right before country music group Sugarland was to perform.",
"Mid-America Sound, based in Greenfield, Indiana, was cited for \"failure to develop and implement an Operations Management Plan, the failure to develop a risk assessment plan, failure to maintain and use current engineering calculations and documentation, and failure to provide appropriate, qualified supervision,\" the labor department said.",
"The company strongly disputed those findings in a statement to CNN Wednesday night.",
"The citations come as the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (IOSHA) released the findings of a six-month investigation focusing specifically on employee safety standards.",
"Two workers were among the people killed.",
"Labor Department Commissioner Lori A. Torres said the citations of Mid-America Sound indicated \"the most serious safety violation.\"",
"\"The evidence demonstrated that the Mid-America Sound Corporation was aware of the appropriate requirements and demonstrated a plain indifference to complying with those requirements,\" Torres said during a morning news briefing at the state capitol in Indianapolis.",
"Also, the Indiana State Fair Commission was cited for failing to evaluate and assess \"all conditions and the related appropriate safety measures\" at the fair's concert venues.",
"The \"serious violation\" resulted in a $6,300 penalty.",
"And the local chapter of the stagehands union (IATSE) and Theatrical Payroll Services Inc. were cited for four violations and fined $11,500 for failing to make sure the load-bearing roof was properly secured.",
"State Fair Commission Chairman Andre Lacy issued a statement Wednesday saying the organization has created a new position of emergency management officer \"to assist with improving emergency action plans, and completed emergency evacuation training for all employees.\"",
"He also noted that two independent investigations are ongoing \"regarding the structural collapse and decision-making analysis.\"",
"\"Our hearts continue to go out to the victims and families of those whose lives were forever impacted by the events of Aug. 13,\" Lacy said in the statement.",
"\"We also appreciate the due diligence of the Indiana Department of Labor in compiling its report.\"",
"An attorney for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees told CNN Indianapolis affiliate WTHR that the state fair was making \"scapegoats\" of the stagehands union.",
"\"(This is) an attempt to deflect attention away from themselves,\" WTHR quoted attorney Bill Groth as saying.",
"\"The State Fair Commission and State Fair personnel are ultimately responsible here.",
"And they're looking for scapegoats and we happen to be first in line.\"",
"Byra Borshoff Cook, a spokesperson for Mid-America Sound, said the company disagrees with the investigation's findings \"and strongly object to their classification as knowing violations.\"",
"\"Mid-America Sound was consistent and clear with the Indiana State Fair Commission about the limitations of the temporary roof structure in high winds or severe inclement weather,\" she said in an e-mailed statement.",
"\"Each year for nearly a decade, we warned the Commission, in writing, that 'The roof or top shall not be used in high winds and or severe inclement weather.",
"High winds meaning 25 MPH and above,'\" Cook said, quoting a clause highlighted on a \"conditions of contract\" page that also was attached to the e-mail sent to CNN.",
"\"In the case of the structure used for the Sugarland concert, the threshold was 40 mph for evacuation,\" Cook's e-mail stated.",
"\"On the evening of the incident one of our employees reconfirmed with State Fair leadership that if there was lightning or wind speeds of 40 mph or more, the area should be evacuated.",
"\"Despite these warnings, the Indiana State Fair Commission, who controlled the venue, and Sugarland, who controlled the concert, refused to postpone the concert and failed to implement an evacuation plan away from the temporary roof structure.\"",
"The National Weather Service estimated winds of 60-70 mph were raking the area when the incident occurred.",
"Forecasters had warned that heavy rain and strong winds would hit the fair nearly two hours before the storm moved through.",
"Video shows the blue canvas top fraying and flapping just seconds before the steel scaffolding gave way and fell onto the \"Sugarpit,\" a section usually occupied by Sugarland's most ardent fans.",
"Authorities had gone onstage just four minutes earlier to warn the crowd to seek shelter, according to a timeline of events released by investigators the day after the accident.",
"Sugarland, the Atlanta-based duo of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, escaped injury since they had not yet come onstage.",
"They later posted a message on Twitter saying they were \"stunned and heartbroken for the fans.\"",
"In November, the families of four people who were killed filed a lawsuit against Sugarland, contending it was the performers' responsibility to decide whether the show would go on and that they had \"ultimate control over the lighting\" that fell on many of the victims.",
"Sugarland's representative has said the group would offer no comment about the lawsuit.",
"CNN's Cameron Tankersley, Holly Yan and Alan Duke contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Spokesperson for fined stage-builder disputes investigation's findings .",
"Indiana stage's builder, state fair commission, stagehands union fined more than $80,000 .",
"Mid-America Sound Corp. hit with the largest penalty -- $63,000 for three violations .",
"Announcement comes after a six-month probe into worker-safety issues ."
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"(CNN) -- Zambia will face pre-tournament favorites Ivory Coast in Sunday's final of the Africa Cup of Nations after both countries won their semifinals 1-0 on Wednesday.",
"Substitute Emmanuel Mayuka scored the only goal 12 minutes from time as Zambia shocked another one of the title favorites, Ghana.",
"Meanwhile, a superb individual goal from Arsenal striker Gervinho proved enough for Ivory Coast to see off Mali in Gabon's capital Libreville.",
"World Cup quarterfinalists Ghana, who lost to Egypt in the 2010 African final, squandered a host of chances, missed a penalty and had a player sent off in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.",
"And the Black Stars were made to pay for not taking advantage of their superiority when 20-year-old striker Mayuka fired home from outside the penalty area.",
"Four-times champions Ghana started the match strongly and should have taken an eighth minute lead when Davies Nkausu fouled Kwadwo Asamoah in the area.",
"But Asamoah Gyan wasted the resulting penalty when his poorly-struck spot-kick was pushed away by goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene.",
"Soon afterwards, Gyan shot straight at Mweene after being put through by Andre Ayew, whose younger brother Jordan also fluffed a great chance to score.",
"Ghana continued to have the majority of the possession after the break, but Mayuka's superb strike gave Zambia a lead they held onto.",
"Ghana's woes were compounded by the dismissal of Derek Boateng with seven minutes left for a second bookable offense.",
"A contender for the goal of the competition from Arsenal striker Gervinho against Mali put Ivory Coast into the final for the first time since losing to Egypt in 2006.",
"Picking the ball up on the halfway line, Gervinho left a host of Mali players in his wake as he sprinted down the left wing before firing a shot past goalkeeper Soumaila Diakite into the far corner of the net.",
"Looking to avoid the same fate as Ghana earlier in the day, the Elephants nearly took a fifth-minute lead when Didier Drogba's shot struck the crossbar.",
"And, just seven minutes later, African player of the year Yaya Toure also struck the bar after being set up by Drogba's Chelsea clubmate Salomon Kalou.",
"Moustapha Yattabare had Mali's best chance in the 72nd minute, but his attempt from the right narrowly whistled over the crossbar."
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"Zambia stun favorites Ghana 1-0 to reach the final of the Africa Cup of Nations .",
"Substitute Emmanuel Mayuka scores the only goal with 12 minutes remaining .",
"Zambia will face Ivory Coast in Sunday's final after the Elephants beat Mali 1-0 .",
"Arsenal striker Gervinho's superb individual goal is enough to defeat co-hosts ."
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"(CNN) -- The diplomatic fallout over this week's attack on Britain's Embassy in Iran deepened Saturday as France temporarily reduced its embassy staff and Italy's ambassador Iran was summoned home.",
"A French Foreign Ministry spokesman said the reduction is for \"security reasons.\"",
"\"Some of their diplomatic staff and their families will leave Iran and return to France,\" said the spokesman, who did not want to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.",
"He couldn't say how many people are leaving, when they are departing and for how long.",
"Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi received Italy's envoy to Tehran in Rome after he was recalled for consultations, said Italian Foreign Affairs spokesman Maurizio Massari.",
"The ambassador, Alberto Bradanini, will not return to Tehran until Italy has received assurances on the protection of its diplomatic mission.",
"\"There has been no decision to close the embassy,\" Massari told CNN.",
"\"We have received some assurances from the Iranian ambassador to Rome, but we would like to get more full guarantees of the security and protection of our diplomatic mission according to international law before sending our ambassador back to Tehran.\"",
"The spokesman went on to say that Italian officials are \"staying in close contact with our European partners and allies.\"",
"Meanwhile, 25 Iranian diplomats and embassy employees arrived in Tehran Saturday morning after Iran was ordered to close its embassy in London, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency, the country's official news agency.",
"The group was greeted by a crowd of university students at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, the agency reported.",
"Relations between the nations have been strained in recent days after the United Kingdom levied new sanctions against Iran.",
"The sanctions were announced in late November and mandated that British credit and financial institutions end their business relationships and transactions with all Iranian banks, their branches and subsidiaries.",
"The move came after an International Atomic Energy Agency report highlighted new concerns about Iran's allege moves towards producing a nuclear weapon.",
"The sanctions prompted protests in Iran and the attack on the British embassy in Tehran on Tuesday.",
"British authorities responded on Wednesday, by closing Iran's embassy in London and ordering Iranian diplomats to leave the country.",
"One senior ayatollah said protesters \"must not act above the law.\"",
"IRNA quoted Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi as saying that \"sometimes some of our dear young people become emotional and do things that gives an excuse to to our enemies and we have to pay a great price.\"",
"He urged young people not to \"take any action without the permission of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.\"",
"CNN's Elizabeth Joseph contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Ayatollah says protesters \"must not act above the law\"\nSome diplomats and their families are returning to France .",
"The Iranian diplomats were met at the airport by a crowd of students ."
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"(CNN) -- If there's one thing Quincy Jones can't stand, it's people without a sense of history.",
"Music producer and composer Quincy Jones says he wants to encourage arts education in the United States.",
"Particularly musical history.",
"\"I was in Seattle about a month ago, and I asked a kid [at a local high school], 'What do you think about Louis Armstrong?'",
"And he said, 'I've heard the name,' \" Jones says in a phone interview from Washington, D.C. \"I said, 'What do you think about Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker and Coltrane?'",
"He said, 'I've never heard of them.'",
"\"And that hurts me a lot. Because it's easier to get where you're going if you know where you came from.\"",
"Jones, who was in Washington to accept yet another honor in a life that's been filled with accolades -- in this case, an Inspire Award from AARP The Magazine for his work as a poverty fighter -- knows exactly how he got to be where he is.",
"The producer, composer, arranger and music industry eminence grise has made versatility and hard work his life's guiding principles.",
"When he was 14, Jones met a 16-year-old Ray Charles.",
"By the time Jones was 18, he was playing in Lionel Hampton's band.",
"He produced Lesley Gore's hit records, including \"It's My Party,\" and arranged for Count Basie and Frank Sinatra.",
"He was nominated for an Oscar for his \"In Cold Blood\" score (one of seven Academy Award nominations), wrote music for \"Roots\" and then produced Michael Jackson's \"Off the Wall,\" \"Thriller\" and \"Bad.\"",
"All this and charitable work through his Quincy Jones Foundation.",
"Even today, at 75, he has a number of projects brewing, including a miniseries on Armstrong, a film on Brazil's Carnival, a Tony Bennett-Stevie Wonder duets album and an entry in Las Vegas, Nevada's restaurant business.",
"One look through Jones' new book, \"The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions\" (Insight Editions), shows how Q -- the nickname Sinatra gave him -- found his way.",
"See some of the season's other great coffee-table books » .",
"The book, which arrives seven years after Jones' revealing autobiography, is practically a Q scrapbook.",
"There's a photo of Jones recording Dinah Washington; a copy of the lead sheet of \"We Are the World\"; a map of Jones' exhausting trip through Europe in 1960, a tour that left him almost $150,000 in debt.",
"The material is richly packaged and cleverly designed, with some in the form of replicas of record covers and correspondence.",
"Ironically, given his sense of history, it wasn't Jones who saved this treasure-trove.",
"He gives credit to his brother and sister-in-law, who \"saved everything.\"",
"\"I used to write a log every day when I was starving to death in New York in the early '50s -- every little arrangement, because we were surviving on that,\" he says.",
"\"They had all of that material. I had no idea they saved all that.",
"I move too fast to do all that,\" he laughs.",
"But he remains passionate, particularly about music and history.",
"He has hopes Barack Obama will appoint a secretary of the arts.",
"\"Our music is the most widely imitated music on the planet, and we're the only country without a minister of culture.",
"... All over the world they understand our music better than we do.\"",
"For his part, he's doing the best to pass on his knowledge -- and keep moving.",
"Looking at \"The Complete Quincy Jones,\" he says, was eye-opening.",
"\"It startled me. It still does. [You look at the index], and you say, how did all this happen? ...",
"It's an astounding experience.",
"\"And what's strange about it,\" he adds, \"is I feel like I'm just starting.\""
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"At 75, Jones as active as ever: new album, restaurant among projects .",
"Composer, producer wants to push national arts minister ."
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"(CNN) -- In a year rife with films styled after the classic gritty and morally ambiguous cinema of the 1970s (\"Moneyball,\" \"Shame\" and \"The Ides of March\"), the best of the lot arrives Friday with Tomas Alfredson's brilliant \"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.\"",
"Adapted from John Le Carré's 1974 novel of the same name, the film is an exceptional treat for those who like to give their brains a little bit of a workout from time to time.",
"The year is 1973: The Cold War is raging around the world, and Britain's security apparatus is split into two branches: MI5 for domestic operations (much like the FBI) and the Secret Intelligence Services, aka MI6 (the CIA equivalent).",
"It's not really that simple, but go with it.",
"Code-named The Circus, MI6 is run by a small group, led by a man known only as \"Control\" (John Hurt).",
"A grizzled Cold War veteran, Control is convinced a Soviet agent is embedded at the top of The Circus, and he has authorized a clandestine operation to convince a Hungarian general with knowledge of the mole to defect.",
"Alas, the mission goes disastrously wrong, and agent Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) is killed.",
"In the aftermath, Control is hung out to dry and forced to leave the service, taking with him his loyal lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman).",
"In his involuntary retirement, Control suffers a heart attack and dies.",
"Shortly thereafter, amid increasing evidence that Control's fears were right, Smiley is secretly rehired by the British government and tasked with uncovering the double agent.",
"Control has done some of the work for him and narrowed the suspects down to five men, all nicknamed after characters from a children's nursery rhyme: .",
"Percy Alleline (Toby Jones) is \"Tinker,\" Bill Haydon (Colin Firth) is \"Tailor,\" Roy Bland (Ciaran Hinds) is \"Soldier,\" Toby Esterhase (David Dencik) is \"Poor Man\" and Smiley himself is codenamed \"Beggarman.\"",
"So distinct are these men that they each might as well have their own adjectives: \"snippy\" Percy (aren't they all?",
"), \"sardonic\" Bill, \"menacing\" Roy and \"unctuous\" Toby.",
"If there were ever to be a remake of \"Casablanca\" (and I should probably be struck dead for even imagining it), Dencik would make an excellent Ugarte (Peter Lorre).",
"Due to the clandestine nature of his task, Smiley is forced to recruit his team from the ranks of junior agents or the recently fired, including Peter Guillam (the always excellent Benedict Cumberbatch from the BBC's \"Sherlock\"), who in one ingeniously staged sequence, must steal documents from The Circus.",
"Cumberbatch also has the single most emotionally affecting scene in the film, illustrating the sacrifices the intelligence community must pay in the service of secrecy.",
"As Smiley, Oldman does more with his eyes and subtle facial expressions than most actors do with histrionics and yelling, and he doesn't say a word for what seems like forever at the start of the film.",
"Not only that, he's the perfect example of hiding in plain sight.",
"With a sloppy suit and giant owl-eye glasses, he looks old and worn, almost befuddled.",
"But he's the fox in the chicken house, wearing a chicken disguise, and when he speaks, it's clear that his is by far the brightest bulb in the room, and you ignore him at your peril.",
"Smiley is a master spy in the real-world sense.",
"James Bond is great fun but realistically, you wouldn't want your espionage experts to be dashing, recognizable extroverts.",
"You want them to be the everyday schmuck who's reading the paper across from you on the subway or the random briefcase-toting CPA that lives down the hall.",
"Le Carré was an MI6 officer in the 1960s (real name David John Moore Cornwall), and his books have that air of authenticity detectable by even those who have no such experience themselves.",
"As for the novel, those familiar with it will notice quite a few departures, omissions and location changes from the original (and the big one, an MI6 holiday party, was approved by Le Carré), but for all these differences director Alfredson et al.",
"have nailed the important stuff: They have made a great film with the feel of the source material.",
"There's not a false note in the film.",
"Alfredson (\"Let the Right One In\") told the screenwriters (Peter Straughan and his wife, the late Bridget O'Connor) and designers he wanted the film to look and feel \"like the smell of damp tweed,\" and if it's possible to pattern visuals after a smell, Alfredson, cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema and the rest of the crew pull it off brilliantly.",
"The flared collars and trousers in various shades of brown, tan and beige scream mid-1970s, and you can practically hear the rustling of the corduroy slacks as they wade through piles of fallen leaves.",
"If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on Oldman joining George Clooney (\"The Descendants\"), Brad Pitt (\"Moneyball\"), Jean Dujardin (\"The Artist\") and Michael Fassbender (\"Shame\") as a best actor nominee.",
"I consider only Clooney, Pitt and Dujardin as locks, but Oldman's performance is the equal of any on this list, and these five could make for the strongest competition in this category for years.",
"For those of you expecting Jason Bourne or James Bond, please adjust your expectations.",
"There is no gadgetry, no Parkour, no sexy villains with silly names and no absurd doomsday devices.",
"There is, however, a meticulously crafted thriller with complex characters, some great vintage Cold War espionage, plot turns you won't see coming and some magnificent acting.",
"\"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy\" is rated R. It contains some off-color language, brief nudity and a few short, sharp bursts of violence.",
"It opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles and expands throughout the country this winter."
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"The action involves one of Britain's security forces, MI6 ."
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"(CNN) -- The roadside bomb that smashed into Army Sgt.",
"Brian Saaristo's Humvee in northern Iraq two years ago ripped off both legs below the knee.",
"Retired Army Sgt.",
"Brian Saaristo, who lost both legs to a roadside bomb, meets with a doctor in Minnesota.",
"Now he's 45, living in retirement in Minnesota and confronting the rest of his life without the use of his legs.",
"Yet he worries mainly about the thousands of younger U.S. service members who also have been maimed by makeshift bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"\"Younger ones are taking it harder,\" Saaristo said.",
"\"They feel they don't have the rest of their lives.\"",
"Roadside bombs and other homemade explosives have been a deadly staple of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, killing or wounding thousands of U.S. service members and civilians.",
"Such improvised explosives devices -- \"IEDs\" to the military -- are the \"weapon of choice\" for insurgents, U.S. officials say.",
"They're mostly cheap, easy to build and triggered by simple remote control.",
"Protecting U.S. troops from such bombs is a top priority at the Pentagon.",
"It has spent $14 billion in the past four years to fight homemade bombs.",
"It even created an agency for that purpose -- the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.",
"That agency has had some success, a new report says, but insurgents continue to kill and maim U.S. service members with homemade bombs, in part because the bombs fulfill their purpose and it is easy to acquire the materials used to construct them.",
"The report came from a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee.",
"It followed two years of hearings and study.",
"The number of IED attacks has dropped in Iraq and gone up in Afghanistan, said Irene Smith, a spokeswoman for the IED organization.",
"Yet there are more than 1,400 such attacks a month in Iraq and Afghanistan and an additional 350 elsewhere, a sign that insurgents continue to rely on them.",
"\"We are in a long war, a persistent conflict with a group of insurgents who want to wear down our will so we quit -- the purpose of an IED,\" she said.",
"\"The enemy recognizes IEDs as the weapon of choice.\"",
"The IED agency has developed and fielded electronic jammers that prevent the bomb's trigger signal from reaching the explosive, the congressional report said.",
"It also has pursued better vehicle armor.",
"The agency has been developing intelligence, fostering police work, funding surveillance and attacking insurgent networks that produce and set up the bombs.",
"It has been involved in training troops on how to confront and look for the weapon.",
"Yet the report said the group needs to improve the way it measures its performance, because it isn't clear in many cases whether the group's actions or other factors have led to various strides in confronting roadside bombs.",
"The report also said the organization needs to widen its authority to include other agencies that confront roadside bombs, and get better oversight.",
"Smith, the spokeswoman for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, agrees with these conclusions.",
"She said the organization appreciates the opportunity to work with the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, \"to identify and resolve any problem areas in our processes.\"",
"She said the cooperation among agencies is crucial.",
"\"Global terrorism will continue to manifest itself through use of IEDs,\" she said."
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"(CNN) -- Libya is expelling Syria's diplomats because of the escalation of the government's crackdown on its people, Libya's Foreign Ministry announced Thursday.",
"The Syrian charge d'affaires was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Tripoli on Wednesday and told to leave with his staff within 72 hours, ministry spokesman Saad Elshlmani said.",
"\"The reason for this is the position of the Syrian regime towards the Syrian people,\" he explained.",
"\"After this escalation and the Arab League meetings in Cairo and the draft resolution ... Libya found it's the time to take a much stronger position against the Syrian regime.\"",
"The Syrian state news agency SANA reported the Syrian consul in Libya, Mohammed al-Ghazawi, and his staff were attacked by gangs on their way to the Foreign Ministry, where they were told to leave.",
"The gangs attacked the Syrians' cars with clubs, knives, and cleavers, SANA reported.",
"The Syrian Embassy was also attacked and looted, the news agency said.",
"A number of other nations have expelled Syria's ambassadors over the violence.",
"They include Tunisia and the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council -- the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait.",
"Other countries, including the United States, have either closed their own embassies in Syria or temporarily recalled their ambassadors from Damascus.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- There are few topics in sport more taboo than betting.",
"Ask baseball's Pete Rose.",
"But a new organization is wagering that it's not only possible to openly bet on Olympic athletes, you can raise money for charity at the same time.",
"Charitybets.com, founded by Auburn University track and field alums, allows anyone to select from a roster of Olympic hopefuls who've agreed to let their performance be bet on.",
"All money wagered will go to the charity of the athlete's choice.",
"It's a first of its kind concept that's sure to generate attention as the summer London 2012 Games draw closer.",
"It appears to have no opposition.",
"Even the United States Olympics Committee thinks the idea is not betting, technically, and wouldn't fly in the face of Olympic rules.",
"\"On the surface, it seems to be a site dedicated to helping charities raise money, which we would obviously have no problem with,\" USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said.",
"When Khadevis Robinson agreed to participate, the four-time U.S. running champion who competed at the 2004 Olympic Games spent a long time doing his homework about the organization.",
"\"The more I learned about this idea, it just seemed like a win-win,\" he said.",
"Starting in June, anyone can bet on whether Robinson will score a spot at the Olympics when he competes at qualifying trials in Eugene, Oregon.",
"Here's how it works: You could bet any amount (say, $75) that Khadevis will make the team or that he'll go \"vver.\"",
"Or, you can bet any amount (say, $10) on the \"under,\" meaning he won't make the team.",
"If Khadevis qualifies, all $75 goes to his charity, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.",
"If he has a bad day, his charity will get only the amount you wagered against him.",
"Don't feel like betting anything if he doesn't make it?",
"Put a zero in that \"under\" wager box.",
"\"It would be nice if no one bet against me, but no matter what -- for or against -- it's the same motivation because I know people are involved in my performance,\" Robinson said.",
"\"The Boys & Girls club in Fort Worth, Texas, helped me out a lot growing up.",
"I didn't have much, and I really depended on that place to keep me focused.",
"I feel like it's almost something I couldn't turn away from if I had the chance, and it's innocent betting.\"",
"Other Olympic hopefuls who've signed up with Charitybets.org include sprinter Walter Dix, who finished second to Usain Bolt in the 100 and 200 meters in world championships this summer, and runner Justin Gatlin, who took gold at the 2004 Olympics.",
"Gamblers will be able to bet whether they'll make the Olympic trials in Oregon as well, Charitybets co-founder Dave Maloney said.",
"The 32-year-old started Charitybets with Marc Hodulich, 31, a fellow former Auburn track teammate; both are the sons of breast cancer survivors.",
"After graduation, the two took jobs in New York and worked with a lot of Wall Street go-getters with well-worn gym memberships who did triathlons and other weekend amateur events.",
"They began brainstorming about how to inspire pros and weekend warriors to raise money for worthy causes.",
"The friends started Charitybets in November.",
"The first competitor who signed with them was Michael Stember, a former NCAA All-American runner from Stanford University who represented the U.S. at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.",
"Stemper is a retired runner but agreed to run a Thanksgiving 5K last year to raise money for a charity he selected.",
"\"We saw from Michael that we had interest and concept that worked logistically,\" Maloney said.",
"\"Naturally, we wanted to take it to the biggest playing field possible.\"",
"2004 Olympic silver medalist Meb Keflezighi worked with Charitybets in January before competing at U.S. marathon trials in Houston.",
"Keflezighi set a place-based goal.",
"The over/under on him was based on whether he finished the marathon in the top three.",
"The 36-year-old won the trial with a time of 2:09:08, setting a personal best by 5 seconds.",
"He signed up with Charitybets about two weeks before competing.",
"Few people knew about it, but he still raised $1,000 for the Meb Foundation, which promotes health and fitness, according to his brother and manager, Merhawi Keflezighi.",
"The American distance star is considering teaming again with Charitybets at the London games.",
"\"Anytime you can get spectators to invest in the race, in any way, it's exciting,\" Merhawi Kaflezighi said.",
"\"Once people understand the idea, I can't imagine anyone not getting behind it.\""
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"All money wagered goes to a charity that the competitor has chosen .",
"2004 Olympics runner Khadevis Robinson among athletes participating ."
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"Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- Spain's best-known judge, Baltasar Garzon, refused to answer questions from a prosecutor as he took the stand Tuesday in his trial on charges of abusing his judicial authority.",
"Garzon sat and listened in silence as lawyer Joaquin Ruiz Infante read out all his questions to put them into the court record.",
"The case centers on Garzon's investigation of human rights abuses under Gen. Francisco Franco, the dictator who ruled Spain for four decades, until his death in 1975.",
"A seven-judge panel at Spain's Supreme Court Tuesday rejected requests from both state prosecutors and Garzon's defense to throw the case out, clearing the way for private prosecutors to press forward.",
"Spanish law allows for private prosecutions, and it is the lawyers for these parties that are pressing the charges against Garzon.",
"Garzon, however, did answer questions from his defense lawyer, Gonzalo Martinez Fresneda, explaining that his investigation started in December 2006 after people came forward with complaints about those still missing from the Franco era.",
"Garzon testified that he searched but could not find any national census of how many people disappeared or their identities.",
"So he decided to investigate because he considered those to be \"permanent crimes\" which still affect their descendants, since the remains have never been found.",
"He said he began to see evidence that there was a \"systematic plan\" against Franco's opponents, which he said included forced disappearances, illegal detentions and assassinations.",
"About 20 supporters applauded the judge in a hallway of the courthouse before the trial began Tuesday, while outside, dozens more demonstrated in his favor, some holding placards with just one word: justice.",
"Judges began hearing the Franco-era case last week, a week after a different seven-judge panel at the same court conducted another trial against Garzon, for allegedly abusing his judicial authority in a high-profile financial corruption case known as Gurtel.",
"That trial lasted three days and a verdict is pending.",
"Garzon, 56, was suspended from his post in 2010, pending these trials.",
"If convicted, he would not go to jail but could lose his right permanently to be a judge in Spain.",
"Many observers said the second trial is the more important one against Garzon, who became known internationally in 1998 when he sought the extradition of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was in a London hospital.",
"Garzon accused him of the murder of Spaniards in Chile and crimes of genocide.",
"Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch was in the courtroom on Tuesday along with other international observers and later said, \"Garzon showed today that his decision to take up the investigations of the crimes of the Franco era was fully supported by international law.\"",
"\"But the spectacle of a judge as a criminal defendant, having to justify his investigation into torture, killings and 'disappearances,' was itself an affront to principles of human rights and judicial independence,\" Brody added.",
"The private prosecution is led by a small civil servants union called Manos Limpias, or Clean Hands.",
"It brought charges against Garzon, saying he ignored a 1977 amnesty law approved in Spanish Parliament, two years after Franco's death.",
"\"Parliament unanimously approved the amnesty law.",
"Judge Baltasar Garzon takes a stance as if they're crazy.",
"What does he think? That he's better than them?\" said Miguel Bernard, leader of Manos Limpias.",
"Bernard denies critics' charges that his group is a tiny far-right front, but he recently told CNN he was proud to receive an honor just last month from the Francisco Franco Foundation.",
"Just before the trial began on Tuesday, Bernard told CNN outside the courtroom that he had heard the judges would deny the motion to stop the trial and instead proceed.",
"\"A first victory,\" Bernard said.",
"Garzon said in May 2010, at the time of his suspension from his post as investigating magistrate at the National Court, \"I face this calmly, with the tranquility of knowing that I am innocent of these charges.\"",
"Franco's military uprising in 1936 triggered the three-year Spanish Civil War.",
"The war ended when Franco's forces emerged victorious over Republican and leftist fighters.",
"Franco's dictatorship continued until his death.",
"Mass graves from the regime are still being unearthed, including one this week in the southern Spanish village of Gerena, said Emilio Silva, from a group called Historical Memory.",
"Silva said the excavations are being done with permission from the landowner, whether public or private, and with permission from local health authorities, who must ensure that the potential discovery of bones or other remains does not pose a current public health risk.",
"Just outside the courtroom before the proceedings began January 24, Garzon told CNN he was \"okay\" as he headed into this second trial.",
"He talked with his lawyers and supporters, smiled broadly and appeared relaxed.",
"Garzon spent 22 years as an investigating magistrate at the National Court, which handles cases of terrorism and other delicate cases.",
"He has investigated the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the Basque terrorist group ETA, and drug traffickers.",
"At times in the past, Garzon has been considered a darling of the Spanish right or the Spanish left, depending on the cases he was investigating.",
"His critics say he is too flamboyant and grandstands in front of the cameras.",
"Since his suspension in 2010, Garzon has been working as a legal adviser outside of Spain on human rights cases and judicial issues, including in Latin America."
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"(CNN) -- Keegan Bradley rounded off a triumphant rookie season by claiming the PGA Tour's Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda Wednesday.",
"Bradley held off a charging Charl Schwartzel of South Africa to win the prestigious end-of-season title by a shot after carding a level-par 71 on the Port Royal Golf Course.",
"It left the American on four-under 138 for the two-round tournament which brings together the season's four major winners.",
"Masters champion Schwartzel produced a best of the day six-under 65 but was ultimately undone by his first round three-over par 74.",
"U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy started the day in the joint lead with Bradley after their first round 67s, but fell away in blustery conditions to card a four-over 75 to finish in third place on level-par 142.",
"McIlroy's Northern Ireland compatriot Darren Clarke was way off the pace as the British Open winner closed out a second round of 74 for nine-over 151.",
"The 25-year-old Bradley, who turned professional in 2008, has enjoyed a remarkable first season on the PGA Tour, claiming the Byron Nelson Classic before his triumph in the PGA Championship where he beat Jason Dufner in a playoff.",
"Remarkably, it was his first appearance in a major, only one of three golfers to achieve the feat.",
"He kept his nerve as Schwartzel drew level through the turn after picking up five straight birdies.",
"Bradley, who had bogeyed the opening hole, birdied the 10th to open up a one-shot lead over Schwartzel which he kept to the finish to claim the $600,000 first prize.",
"\"It was a lot more intense than I thought it was going to be,\" Bradley told gathered reporters after his victory.",
"\"Coming down the stretch, it felt like any other tournament that I played in.",
"It was very, very intense, and I was nervous over that 5-footer to win.\""
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"Keegan Bradley wins PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda .",
"Rookie professional cards a level-par 71 for four-under 138 .",
"Charl Schwartzel one-shot back after brilliant second round 65 .",
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is asking lawmakers to withdraw confidence from his deputy after Saleh al-Mutlaq made controversial comments this week over American forces withdrawing from Iraq, state media reported late Saturday.",
"In a recent interview with CNN, al-Mutlaq accused al-Maliki of amassing dictatorial power.",
"\"There will be a day whereby the Americans will realize that they were deceived by al-Maliki ... and they will regret that,\" said al-Mutlaq, a leader within Iraqiya movement.",
"The request followed word that the Iraqiya coalition was boycotting the country's parliament -- a move that would threaten Iraq's fragile power-sharing arrangement.",
"The crisis pits al-Maliki, a Shiite, against Iraqiya, a powerful political bloc that enjoys support from Sunnis and more secular Iraqis.",
"Also at issue were reports that an arrest warrant had been issued for Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi for masterminding a recent car bombing targeting the parliament.",
"Ali al-Mussawi, al-Maliki's media adviser, said there were confessions that linked the Sunni vice president to the bombing.",
"Al-Mussawi dismissed the notion that linking al-Hashimi to terrorism was politically motivated.",
"He would not confirm whether an arrest warrant had indeed been issued, saying that was a matter for the judiciary.",
"The Iraqiya bloc, headed by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, made its move Friday night.",
"The bloc is one of the largest and most powerful political groups in Iraq and boasts among its members the speaker of the parliament.",
"The bloc had been in a power-sharing deal with al-Maliki's State of Law Alliance, backed mostly by Shiites.",
"Iraqiya accuses al-Maliki of trying to consolidate his own power rather than share it.",
"His rivals say, for example, that he still controls the country's security ministries and all decisions go through him.",
"They also say that the hundreds of people seized by the government in October for backing terrorism and supporting the banned Baath Party are Iraqiya supporters.",
"Iraqiya spokesman Haider al-Mulla said the bloc has always warned about the deal's risks and says the State of Law Alliance has been violating the law.",
"\"Iraqiya has always expressed its rejection to the policy of exclusion and marginalization, lack of power sharing, politicization of the judiciary, the lack of balance within the government institutions,\" al-Mulla said.",
"Al-Maliki won a second term as prime minister in 2010 after a months-long dispute among the leading parties in the country's parliamentary elections.",
"The largely secular Iraqiya movement won two more seats than al-Maliki's party, but a merger of the premier's Shiite Muslim slate with a smaller Shiite bloc put him first in line to form a government.",
"There had been fears of renewed bloodshed between Iraq's majority Shiite and minority Sunni populations and that prompted U.S. officials to work out a power-sharing agreement, bringing the Iraqiya movement into the government.",
"Al-Mutlaq told CNN that Washington is leaving Iraq \"with a dictator\" who has ignored a power-sharing agreement, kept control of the country's security forces and rounded up hundreds of people in recent weeks.",
"He said he was \"shocked\" to hear U.S. President Barack Obama greet al-Maliki at the White House on Monday as \"the elected leader of a sovereign, self-reliant and democratic Iraq.\"",
"\"America left Iraq with almost no infrastructure.",
"The political process is going in a very wrong direction, going toward a dictatorship,\" he said.",
"\"People are not going to accept that, and most likely they are going to ask for the division of the country.",
"And this is going to be a disaster.",
"Dividing the country isn't going to be smooth, because dividing the country is going to be a war before that and a war after that.\"",
"Neighboring Iran, predominantly Shiite and led by a Shiite regime, views al-Maliki as its man in Baghdad and has dictated the shape of the current government, al-Mutlaq said.",
"But he said al-Maliki is playing games with both Washington and Tehran.",
"The last U.S. troops are scheduled to be out of Iraq by the end of December, nearly nine years after the 2003 invasion that topped Saddam Hussein.",
"More than 4,000 Americans and an estimated 115,000 Iraqis died in the invasion and the years of insurgency and sectarian warfare that followed.",
"A Sunni who was originally barred from running because of allegations that he supported Hussein's Baath Party, al-Mutlaq said he has no authority within the government.",
"He said al-Maliki has flouted the power-sharing deal's provisions by refusing to name permanent ministers to lead the defense and interior ministries, which concentrates control over the military and police in the prime minister's hands.",
"He said U.S. officials, who brokered the power-sharing deal, either \"don't know anything in Iraq and they don't know what is happening in Iraq, or because they don't want to admit the reality in Iraq, the failure in Iraq, the failure of this political process that they set in Iraq.\"",
"Along with Shiites and Sunnis, Kurds are a major player in Iraqi politics.",
"Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish member of parliament, said lawmakers discussed the Iraqiya move on Saturday and said it reflects \"a level of mistrust between the blocs, the government, Iraqiya and others.",
"\"The problem is that Maliki isn't sharing any security decisions with Iraqiya, he doesn't trust them and this is a big problem,\" he said.",
"\"Power-sharing was never power-sharing.",
"We are in a government of conflict.",
"Power-sharing was never successful.",
"\"The Kurds don't want to take sides, we want them (Iraqiya and State of Law Alliance) to get together to solve their problems.\"",
"He is worried that the problem could morph into fighting between Sunnis and Shiites or violence against the government.",
"\"This isn't just political,\" he said. \"It's sectarian.\""
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"The deputy prime minister's job is on the line after controversial comments, report says .",
"Request comes after word that the Iraqiya bloc won't participate in parliament .",
"Iraqiya, of which al-Mutlaq is a member, claims al-Maliki is trying to consolidate power ."
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"(CNN) -- Two bombs went off at separate locations in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, police said Thursday.",
"The Police Service of Northern Ireland said people had been moved from both areas after telephone warnings and there were no reports of injuries.",
"One of the blasts was on Strand Road, near government offices and police headquarters.",
"The other was near a tourist office at Foyle Street.",
"The police commander for the city, Chief Superintendent Stephen Martin, branded the attacks \"reckless.\"",
"He praised his officers for quickly evacuating businesses and homes, including many elderly residents.",
"\"Thankfully we are not dealing with mass casualties or worse this evening,\" said Martin.",
"\"The people of Derry do not want this - it is cowardly and callous.\"",
"Londonderry, Northern Ireland's second largest city, has a Catholic majority and is known as Derry by many residents.",
"Local politicians are blaming Irish Republican Army splinter groups for planting the bombs.",
"There have been several attacks by so-called \"dissident republicans\" in the city during recent years since the mainstream IRA declared a cease-fire.",
"The IRA for decades fought against British authorities in Northern Ireland, but has since renounced violence.",
"The former Social Democratic and Labour Party mayor of the city, Irish nationalist Colum Eastwood, condemned Thursday's attacks.",
"\"This was an attack on the people of Derry by the enemies of Ireland.",
"Those behind this are engaged in a futile and morally bankrupt campaign.\"",
"Leader of the pro-British Ulster Unionist Party, Tom Elliott, said, \"I have no doubt the bombs are the work of so-called \"dissident\" republican terrorists.",
"\"We have seen this type of attack before during the troubles when the IRA blitzed Londonderry on a regular basis,\" Elliott said.",
"\"Those attacks failed to break the will of the unionist people and these attacks will fail, too.",
"These attacks further no cause.\"",
"Elliott called for a security crackdown by British authorities and urged anyone with information on the bombers to give it to police.",
"\"This type of fascism was part of our past.",
"It has no place in our future,\" he added."
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"(CNN) -- Allegations surrounding a U.S. investigation that may have involved laundering money for Mexican drug cartels are causing concern on both sides of the border.",
"In Mexico, lawmakers say they are furious and are demanding an investigation.",
"In the United States, a congressman is broadening the oversight of a previous inquiry to include the most recent allegations.",
"Felipe Gonzalez, a federal senator with Mexico's ruling PAN party, says they will demand an investigation to determine whether the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration allowed its agents to launder money, possibly even on Mexican soil, as part of an investigation into the inner workings of Mexican drug cartels.",
"Gonzalez called the situation \"really, really bad\" and said that \"this is not increasing the trust among countries to work together against crime.",
"Furthermore, you can't fight crime by committing criminal acts and violating the law.\"",
"Last weekend, the New York Times reported that DEA agents \"have handled shipments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal cash across borders.\"",
"Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, announced Monday an investigation into the allegations in his role as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.",
"In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Issa said, \"These allegations, if true, raise further unsettling questions about a Department of Justice component engaging in a high-risk strategy with scant evidence of success.\"",
"Furthermore, Issa wrote that the existence of such a program again calls Holder's leadership into question.",
"Tensions stemming from law enforcement actions have long troubled relations between Mexico and the United States.",
"Samuel Gonzalez, a security analyst in Mexico City, says Mexicans are especially sensitive when it comes to their territory.",
"\"Of course there's a jurisdiction problem and, in the end, maybe a violation of sovereignty.",
"That has to be determined and find out where the operations were carried out,\" Gonzalez said.",
"Robert Strang, a former DEA agent, says infiltration of Mexican drug cartels is not only happening, but it's essential in investigations aimed at dismantling Mexican criminal organizations by targeting their finances.",
"\"There's only one way really to catch these major drug cartels, the leaders of these cartels, and that's to follow the money, because these leaders don't go anywhere near the drugs themselves.",
"They hire people to do that,\" Strang said.",
"As an answer to he allegations published by The Times, the DEA issued a statement Tuesday saying, \"We do not discuss the operational aspects of law enforcement activities.\"",
"The statement also said that the DEA has been \"working collaboratively with the Mexican government to fight money laundering for years.",
"As a result of this cooperation, we have seized illicit transnational criminal organization money all around the world through our partnership with law enforcement.\"",
"For Strang, the former DEA agent, the bottom line is whether these actions produce results.",
"\"The real question here is whether or not undercover agents need to sell drugs, buy drugs, and launder money.",
"And I've got to tell you, there's no way to make these kinds of great international, sophisticated conspiracy cases unless you're going to do that,\" he said.",
"Last month, a small group of Mexican legislators requested the extradition of American agents involved in Operation Fast and Furious.",
"This operation, run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, allowed the illegal smuggling of firearms from the United States into Mexico in an effort to learn about smugglers.",
"Many weapons were lost and likely ended up in criminal hands.",
"U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to answer key questions about Operation Fast and Furious as he appears Thursday before a congressional panel including Issa, who also is leading the congressional investigation into the flawed gun sting program."
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"Allegations say the DEA allowed agents to launder money, perhaps even on Mexican soil .",
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"(CNN) -- Sports seasons come and go, but a long-running debate about the use of a Native American nickname and logo by University of North Dakota athletic teams appears nowhere close to a final outcome.",
"A flurry of activity this week highlights the wide divisions over the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo.",
"Those supporting the nickname -- including some Native Americans -- filed petitions asking for a vote this summer on the issue.",
"The university announced Wednesday it is required to resume using it because of the filing of the petitions.",
"The North Dakota Board of Higher Education, which agreed five years ago to retire the nickname, and the state's attorney general will hold a conference call next week to discuss legal options in the imbroglio.",
"The board of education and university system want an end to the whole matter.",
"\"We've heard from all sides.",
"There certainly are people who said they want to keep it,\" John Irby, public affairs consultant for the university system, told CNN Thursday.",
"\"But the position again is, we should focus on education and this is robbing and stealing too much from the focus.",
"It (education) is becoming collateral damage.\"",
"More damage comes in the form of sanctions by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which has a policy against mascots \"deemed hostile or abusive toward Native Americans.\"",
"In 2005, the NCAA sought to end the controversy surrounding such mascots by ordering some 20 schools whose nicknames and mascots they deemed \"abusive in terms of race, ethnicity or national origin\" to either get Native American permission to use their name and likeness, or to come up with new ones.",
"North Dakota is the last holdout in the NCAA's campaign.",
"The NCAA reiterated its stance on sanctions Wednesday, saying the \"university is subject to the terms of the policy if it uses the logo and nickname.\"",
"\"Those terms include not being able to host NCAA championship events and a prohibition against using the nickname and imagery on uniforms for student-athletes, along with cheerleaders, (the) mascot or band members, in any NCAA championships,\" said Erik Christianson, NCAA director of media relations, in a written statement.",
"\"The NCAA sanctions are not a good thing,\" Irby said.",
"\"I have never seen the NCAA back down.\"",
"In 2007, the North Dakota Board of Higher Education agreed to drop the Fighting Sioux nickname by August 15, 2011, in accordance with the NCAA's policy.",
"But that move was met with opposition.",
"The state Legislature in early 2011 passed a law requiring the university to use the Fighting Sioux nickname.",
"That law, however, was repealed in November 2011 when legislators approved a bill that allowed the school to stop using the moniker.",
"North Dakotans who favor the mascot responded with a two-pronged strategy.",
"On one had they are calling for the state constitution to be changed to stipulate the use of the Fighting Sioux name.",
"If certified, that proposal would be on the November ballot.",
"Supporters have until August to submit signatures to gain certification.",
"The other effort calls for voters to decide in June whether to repeal the law that permitted the school to drop the name.",
"Petitions backing that move were filed Tuesday with Secretary of State Al Jaeger.",
"The state requires 13,452 certified signatures to put a law repeal issue before voters.",
"North Dakota has about 684,000 residents.",
"Petition supporters said they turned in more than the minimum number of signatures.",
"\"By filing the petitions last night, the law as passed in early 2011 is now again in effect,\" Jaeger told CNN on Wednesday.",
"\"The law passed in November 2011 is now suspended.",
"I have 35 days to review the petitions.",
"If I find the petitions sufficient, it will be certified for the ballot.",
"If not, the bill passed in November will again become the law.\"",
"In the meantime, university President Robert Kelley said the school, located in Grand Forks, is resuming the use of the name and logo.",
"\"I want to reaffirm our respect for the laws of the state and the processes guaranteed under the North Dakota Constitution,\" he said in a statement.",
"There are still vestiges of the nickname on campus, including an ice hockey arena featuring a statue and hundreds of Fighting Sioux logos.",
"While fightingsioux.com still links to the athletics department, the website now goes under a different web address and does not have the previous logo, a profile of a Sioux warrior.",
"Doug Fullerton will be paying close attention to how the issue plays out.",
"As commissioner of the Big Sky Conference, he is overseeing North Dakota's ascent from Division II obscurity to the far more lucrative stage of Division I.",
"\"When we invited (North Dakota's football team) into the conference, this was not an issue,\" he said last summer.",
"Citing the conference's \"close, close ties to Native American tribes\" and the threat of boycotts, Fullerton said he has been on 'heightened alert' Wednesday, North Dakota's conference membership -- slated to begin July 1 -- could be rescinded if the college presidents within Big Sky so decide, he said.",
"The 13 college presidents -- including Robert Kelley of North Dakota -- are scheduled to meet in early June, according to Fullerton.",
"The NCAA requirement on Native American nicknames has resulted in varied responses among the targeted schools.",
"The Arkansas State Indians became the Red Wolves; the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indians became the Crimson Hawks.",
"Other schools satisfied the mandate by tweaking their name, such as Southeastern Oklahoma State, where the Savages are now known as the Savage Storm.",
"Others, like the Bradley University Braves, whose name does not affiliate with a specific tribe, were allowed to keep their name so long as Native American logos and imagery were eschewed.",
"Schools with higher-profile athletic programs fared better.",
"The Florida State Seminoles, University of Utah Utes and Central Michigan University Chippewas each obtained permission from their respective namesake tribes to stay the course.",
"But the North Dakota Fighting Sioux -- winners of seven national championships in men's ice hockey -- were denied such an endorsement from the Tribal Council of the Standing Rock Sioux.",
"But another tribal body, Spirit Lake, has expressed support for the nickname.",
"A website, savethefightingsioux.com, calls for keeping the nickname and logo.",
"It lists the Spirit Lake Committee for Understanding and Respect, whose members were among those who filed the petitions.",
"\"We ask you to boldly 'Stand Up' with us, the Dakota Sioux Nation, as we stand on principle against an injustice attempting to rid UND of its traditions and customs,\" the website reads."
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"U. of North Dakota is the last holdout over an NCAA policy on Native American nicknames .",
"University system consultant: Education \"is becoming collateral damage\" in the dispute .",
"The attorney general and higher education board plan to discuss legal options next week .",
"A move up to the Big Sky Conference may hinge on the Fighting Sioux nickname ."
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"(CNN) -- World number one Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the Paris Masters with a shoulder injury.",
"The 24-year-old moved into the last eight of the competition on Thursday with a three-set over fellow Serbian Viktor Troicki but said he was not fit enough to face Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Friday's scheduled quarterfinal.",
"Djokovic has been struggling with shoulder and back injuries since winning the U.S. Open in September, and was forced to withdraw from the Shanghai Masters as he missed the ATP Tour's Asian leg.",
"\"Sadly I have to inform you that I have withdrawn from the tournament,\" he said on his official website on Friday, raising doubts that he will be fit to play in the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London this month.",
"\"I have pushed myself to the limit by playing, and after the match yesterday my shoulder got worse.",
"\"For this reason, I have to put my health first and withdraw even though my urges as a professional player are making me want to play until the last drop of energy.",
"\"I am very sorry for all of you who bought tickets and wanted to come and watch me play.",
"My season has been long and tiring, I played all of my matches at my highest level, and now my body is aching for recovery.",
"Hoping for your understanding and support.\"",
"Earlier in the week Djokovic rejected claims that he had played in Paris just to collect a year-end $1.6 million bonus check for finishing top of the rankings, saying they were \"ridiculous.\"",
"The tournament lost another big attraction in quarterfinal action Friday as second seed Andy Murray crashed out to Czech Tomas Berdych.",
"Murray was bidding to extend his unbeaten streak to 19 matches, but was beaten 4-6 7-6 6-4 by sixth seed Berdych, who will be joining him at the ATP Tour Finals in London later this month.",
"Berdych leveled with superb play in the second set tiebreak and a crucial break in the ninth game of the decider left him to serve out for victory and his third win in four matches with Scot Murray.",
"His reward is a semifinal clash against Roger Federer after the third seed saw off Juan Monaco of Argentina 6-3 7-5.",
"It was the 800th win of the Swiss maestro's remarkable career and was wrapped up in just under 90 minutes at the Bercy Arena.",
"Tsonga will play John Isner of the United States for a place in the final after he upset fourth seed David Ferrer of Spain 6-3 3-6 6-3 in the final quarterfinal of an eventful day in the French capital."
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"Roger Federer clocks up 800th career win as he dispatches Juan Monaco ."
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"(CNN) -- In October 2011, actor Hugh Jackman launched a new company called Laughing Man.",
"Initially, the business offered a variety of coffees and teas, sold online and in a small cafe in the Tribeca part of New York City.",
"This week, Jackman's expanding his line of offerings into the world of chocolate, just in time for Valentine's Day.",
"While it's certainly commonplace for entertainment professionals to dive into other business opportunities, Jackman's new business may seem a bit curious if viewed through the lens of his offering items tied to the little pleasures and relaxations of life.",
"Jackman seems to always be shooting a film or booking theater work.",
"The guy can't slow down. CNN recently spoke with the actor from London about the evolution of his new business, the inspiration behind it and who in his family is helping out.",
"He's currently rehearsing for the upcoming film adaptation of \"Les Misérables\" and later this year will begin shooting \"The Wolverine,\" reprising his role as Logan/Wolverine in the latest comic adaptation.",
"CNN: Some people claim that chocolate is an aphrodisiac.",
"Some people don't. Does your chocolate guarantee good loving?",
"Jackman: That's a good question.",
"I would definitely say -- because I eat a little bit of dark chocolate every day -- I'd definitely say that it makes you feel good.",
"I don't know if it makes me feel like \"getting it on.\"",
"I suppose I could see the connection.",
"It definitely makes you feel good.",
"CNN: You launched Laughing Man last fall.",
"In the general sense, what's the business plan?",
"Jackman: Laughing Man worldwide is going to incubate different companies.",
"One of them is coffee and tea, one of them is chocolate.",
"Who knows where we'll go from there. Each of these companies that we create, 100% of the profits go to charities.",
"It's first and foremost about creating good products that people really want.",
"Not that they feel like they should want it, but because they genuinely want it.",
"And then being able to create jobs and support entrepreneuralism.",
"I was mainly inspired by Paul Newman on the business level and what he did.",
"I read his book about 10 years ago, \"Shameless Exploitation in the Pursuit of the Common Good.\"",
"It's a great book and that's probably where the idea incubated.",
"CNN: The Newman line, and sorry for the pun, started very organically.",
"Jackman: That's what inspired me, and I was waiting for the right opportunity.",
"I was in Ethiopia as a part of World Vision and I met and worked with a coffee farmer, Dukale; at the time I was living with them, and it was pretty amazing.",
"It had a great effect on me.",
"So the urgency for me to do something was growing, but I didn't know what.",
"Now, we actually buy coffee from Dukale where I stayed.",
"Our Espresso blend is actually called Dukale's Dream.",
"CNN: And everything is sourced with fair trade guidelines and all that?",
"Jackman: Absolutely.",
"Organic, fairly traded, the chocolates are kosher, you name it.",
"We wanted to be win-win all around.",
"The environment, the growers and the purchasers.",
"CNN: There's a lot of political aspects surrounding food, not only in the U.S. but on a global level.",
"But there's a market out there for people that care about that stuff.",
"Jackman: Oh, yeah, hugely.",
"And what's important for us to know who we are buying from.",
"There's some organizations that you're buying from that are like a co-op and you can't really guarantee who you are buying from.",
"We really want to encourage people that you can get a really fair price for quality products, wherever it's grown.",
"That's what we're doing. Business done well is a win-win all around.",
"It doesn't have to tax the environment or quality or the workers or people.",
"There is a way, under the natural law, for this to work for everybody.",
"CNN: As an actor, you're constantly busy with work.",
"How much are you involved in the day-to-day or month-to-month of this?",
"Jackman: Every weekend, I go down [to the store in New York City] with my son and do some work.",
"He's 11. I figure it's good for him to start doing some work.",
"Most of the business is done online.",
"I'm involved as much as I can without it being my full-time job.",
"For a long time, I've been looking to focus my profile on and this somehow ...",
"I've always been interested in economics and business -- my wife always jokes that I should be taking a briefcase to work -- it's something I genuinely enjoy and it doesn't feel like a burden.",
"CNN: You're rehearsing \"Les Misérables\" right now.",
"What's the adaptation going to be like?",
"Jackman: It's a musical adaptation.",
"Obviously, it's a 1,500 page book, but don't worry, it's not going to be 15 hours long.",
"It's an epic, and we'll be musically close to the musical.",
"Today, I was working on a brand new song that Claude-Michel [Schönberg] wrote with Alain Boublil, which was a great thrill for me.",
"CNN: What's the sound like?",
"Is it modern in any way?",
"Jackman: Oh, no, the music is largely as it is from the musical.",
"So there's no rap version or blues version.",
"It's going to be what people expect in that way.",
"CNN: 20th Century Fox just announced a release date for \"The Wolverine.\"",
"What's the game plan? Jackman: Shooting later this year.",
"\"Les Mis\" finishes around the beginning of June so we'll take a month down and we'll get started.",
"It's a Japanese saga, I'm very excited about it.",
"It's looking good."
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"\"I eat a little bit of dark chocolate every day,\" Jackman said .",
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"(CNN) -- Mitt Romney has won the New Hampshire primary.",
"That much was clear as soon as the polls closed Tuesday night.",
"It took a little while longer to sort out exactly where the other candidates finished behind him, but that barely matters.",
"Regardless of the other candidates' performances in New Hampshire or even what happens in the South Carolina primary next week, Mitt Romney is extremely likely to be the Republican nominee.",
"How can we know this so early, after only one primary election and the Iowa caucus?",
"The dominant political science explanation of the presidential nominating process is contained in the book, \"The Party Decides\" by Marty Cohen, David Karol, Hans Noel, and John Zaller.",
"They point out that candidates need support from their party's politicians and activists across the country.",
"From 1980 to the present, no candidate who significantly trailed in party endorsements has won the nomination.",
"A few candidates have been nominated in years when no candidate took an early endorsement lead.",
"These include Mike Dukakis in 1988 and Barack Obama in 2008.",
"But no candidate has succeeded when significantly trailing by that measure.",
"There are reasons to believe that this pattern is not a coincidence.",
"Your party's politicians and activists can help you organize and raise money as you hopscotch to primaries and caucuses across the country.",
"On top of this is the effect of national media figures on TV, radio and the Internet closing ranks around the candidate most leaders in their party support.",
"We got an excellent example of this in December when Newt Gingrich opened up a fairly large lead in Iowa and national polls.",
"Romney's supporters used his fundraising advantage to pummel (through a sympathetic super-PAC) Gingrich with negative ads.",
"On top of this, Republican pundits almost universally condemned Gingrich.",
"As Ben Smith of Politico noticed, on December 14, just about all columnists on the Washington Post op-ed page, regardless of their ideologies, criticized Gingrich.",
"On his morning show on MSNBC, former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough, who served with Gingrich in the 1990s, called him a \"bad person\" who \"will destroy our party.\"",
"This would continue if someone like Gingrich had initial success in the primaries and caucuses.",
"As chronicled by Nate Silver, Mitt Romney now has a big lead in Republican Party endorsements, giving him a huge advantage moving forward.",
"Through the end of November, Romney had 55% of all Republican endorsements and his share has only increased in December and after his slim victory over Santorum in Iowa.",
"The only other person with a non-trivial number of endorsements is Texas Gov.",
"Rick Perry.",
"Consequently, Perry remains the only candidate who could somewhat plausibly challenge Romney in a drawn out fight for the nomination.",
"How did this happen? How did a candidate who relatively recently supported abortion and gay rights, and who as governor passed a health reform bill remarkably similar to the president's, manage to lock up the Republican establishment's support?",
"It wasn't inevitable. The most plausible alternatives were former Minnesota Gov.",
"Tim Pawlenty and Perry.",
"Pawlenty likely miscalculated by dropping out after weak performances in debates and in the Iowa straw poll.",
"Pawlenty's campaign was low on cash.",
"But many Republican endorsers were late in deciding to go with Romney.",
"If Pawlenty had laid off campaign staff but stayed in the race, he might have benefited from a late surge in endorsements and in the polls.",
"(Pawlenty's mediocre debating performances would have evoked Cicero in comparison to Perry.)",
"Which brings us to the second candidate who could have won support from Republican elites: Perry.",
"Right after he announced, it appeared that he might be able to match or even surpass Romney in establishment backing.",
"But he has been hurt by his extremely weak campaign skills, including disastrous performances in debates and on the stump.",
"In Republican eyes, he may be a reliable conservative, but he appears to be someone incapable of running a competent campaign against Barack Obama.",
"Still, Perry remains the only candidate besides Romney with nontrivial support from Republican elites.",
"If he could somehow manage to run a respectable campaign and win a substantial number of votes in South Carolina, he would be Romney's only halfway plausible threat.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jonathan Ladd."
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"Jonathan Ladd: It's a good bet that Mitt Romney will win the GOP nomination .",
"He says we can make that judgment based on his support among party insiders .",
"Candidates with the endorsement of party elites have typically won the nomination .",
"Ladd: The only candidate who even approaches Romney's party endorsements is Perry ."
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"Budapest, Hungary (CNN) -- A former Hungarian prime minister was briefly detained Friday during a demonstration outside the Parliament building, police said.",
"Ferenc Gyurcsany, now a member of parliament, was protesting the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose center-right party, Fidesz, is dominant in Parliament.",
"Gyurcsany was among 43 people detained at the demonstration, staged by the LMP opposition party.",
"He was among 15 lawmakers, including members of Parliament from the LMP and Gyurcsancy's former Socialist Party, who were picked up by police.",
"The people were taken into custody for blocking entrances and exits to the Parliament building and violating \"personal freedom.\"",
"Police said the 15 parliament members eventually were released but it's unclear whether the remaining people have been freed.",
"Opposition members were protesting votes by Parliament on several contentious bills and wanted more debate about them before the vote.",
"Parliament approved several new bills, including a measure keeping elections to a single round, another cutting in half the number of lawmakers, and one that redraws voting districts.",
"Later, the LMP held a demonstration, attended by about 1,000 people.",
"Speakers called for a national referendum on the job of the government.",
"Concern in financial markets has brought the issue of Hungary's government and economy to the forefront.",
"The nation has been stripped of its investment grade status by ratings agencies.",
"Critics have accused the ruling Fidesz Party of undermining democracy and making constitutional changes more suited to an authoritarian regime.",
"Hungary is a member of the European Union and NATO.",
"Orban is accused of tightening his grip on power by redrawing election boundaries, installing loyal judges in the country's courts and curbing media freedom.",
"Matyas Eorsi, a Hungarian politician, said this process began a year and a half ago \"when the current government got into power and since then they are systematically dismantling checks and balances and independent institutions.",
"Recently, there was a bill introduced to the Hungarian Parliament to curb the independence of the central bank that was most alarming.\"",
"But one senior Hungarian official has blamed opposition parties for bringing the country to the brink of economic and political collapse.",
"Zoltan Kovacs, state secretary for government communications, said the government is trying to resolve a problem spawned by the previous Socialist government.",
"\"There is a visible and very well-orchestrated effort on behalf of the opposition parties to put together this kind of democracy deficit problem in the last couple of months,\" Kovacs said.",
"\"We have to deal with those major economic and social problems that the previous Socialist government have created.",
"So we are basically finishing in about year and half ... the kind of process that should have been started 20 years ago.\"",
"In 2006, Hungarian radio played a leaked tape where Gyurcsany admitted that his Socialist Party lied to the public to win that year's general election.",
"Gyurcsany left the Socialist Party last year and has formed a new party, the Democratic Coalition.",
"CNN's Matthew Chance contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- A 22-year-old Virginia man stole a Mercedes SUV at gunpoint the day before he shot dead a Virginia Tech police officer and then took his own life, police said Friday.",
"Virginia State Police on Friday identified Ross Truett Ashley, 22, as the man who killed Virginia Tech Police Officer Deriek Crouse and then himself about 30 minutes later.",
"A part-time student at Radford University, 15 miles southwest of Blacksburg, Ashley had no connection to or contact with Crouse before Thursday's shooting, according to a news release from state police.",
"\"State police investigators are continuing their work to establish a motive in the killing and to re-create Ashley's movements in the days and hours leading up to the murder-suicide,\" police said.",
"Ashley entered a real estate office in Radford with a handgun Wednesday and demanded the keys to a white 2011 Mercedes SUV, according to police.",
"He drove off in the car, which was found the next day on the Virginia Tech campus.",
"That's where and when Ashley and Crouse were found dead, about a quarter mile away from each other.",
"Ballistics evidence shows that both were fatally shot with the same gun, state police said Friday.",
"Police have said they believe Ashley matches the description of the man who shot the officer.",
"Thursday's double shooting conjured memories from April 16, 2007, when student Seung-Hui Cho killed 33 people at Virginia Tech in a mass shooting.",
"\"Once again, the campus and the community that we love so well have been visited by senseless violence and tragic loss,\" Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger said in a statement.",
"\"Tragedy again struck Virginia Tech in a wanton act of violence where our police officer, Deriek Crouse, was murdered during a routine traffic stop.\"",
"The scale and facts of Thursday's shooting differ significantly from the incident four years ago.",
"Still, it served as a test of the policies the school has implemented since that tragedy.",
"The latest incident began about 12:15 p.m. Thursday, when Crouse, who had been a Virginia Tech officer for four years, pulled over someone during a routine traffic stop in the Cassell Coliseum parking lot near McComas Hall.",
"Cassell Coliseum houses athletic facilities.",
"McComas Hall houses exercise facilities.",
"Shortly before 12:30 p.m., police received their first call from a person who said he'd seen the suspect -- not the driver of the car that had been pulled over -- approach the officer's vehicle and open fire.",
"The shooter ran from the area.",
"Police said Ashley changed out of his wool cap and pullover at the Virginia Tech greenhouses and put them in a backpack.",
"A Montgomery County deputy sheriff who was on-site because of the first shooting eventually spotted a man who was walking toward the on-campus \"Cage\" parking lot.",
"The deputy sheriff temporarily lost sight of this man as he drove toward him, according to the state police chronicle of events released Friday.",
"\"When the deputy finally reached the subject, the man was on the ground and deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound,\" police said.",
"This person didn't have any identification on him and was wearing clothing different from that worn by the person who had shot Crouse, police added.",
"But that clothing was recovered later Thursday in the backpack Ashley had left behind.",
"Maj. Rick Jenkins of the Virginia State Police said a video camera mounted inside the slain officer's car captured footage of a man with a weapon who matched the description of the man they'd found dead.",
"In addition to the law enforcement activity, Virginia Tech's updated communications efforts -- which received criticism in 2007, for not letting students know quickly or extensively enough what was happening then -- were also put in focus during Thursday's incident.",
"Campus officials put out six alerts to students and faculty about the shooting.",
"On Thursday, law enforcement and school officials said the alert system put in place in recent years worked well, from technological and communications standpoints.",
"Virginia Gov.",
"Bob McDonnell, whose daughter attends Virginia Tech, lauded the communications effort.",
"McDonnell said his daughter was confined to a basement classroom during the four-hour episode.",
"\"Like so many parents who had children on the Virginia Tech campus, I felt a lot of that angst and uncertainty,\" he said.",
"\"Again, I want to express my gratitude to law enforcement for making sure that they kept the faculty (and) parents regularly informed.\"",
"Crouse, 39, joined the Virginia Tech police force six months after the 2007 mass shooting, according to a release on the school's website.",
"A U.S. Army veteran who had worked at the New River Valley jail and with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department, the Christiansburg resident is survived by his wife, as well as five children and stepchildren.",
"The man who killed Crouse is from Partlow, a town about 45 miles north of Richmond in Virginia's Spotsylvania County.",
"Radford University said Friday in a statement that Ashley was a business management major at the school.",
"Citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the university said \"no additional information on Mr. Ashley can be provided.\"",
"Radford President Penny Kyle said counseling would be made available to that university's students, akin to services offered at Virginia Tech.",
"Already, members of the Virginia Tech community have come together since the shootings.",
"For instance, scores of people came together on the Blacksburg campus for a candlelight vigil on Thursday night, one day after a similar, smaller event was held.",
"A student-organized group that calls itself Hokies for Crouse said at 9:40 p.m. Friday on its website that it had raised more than $31,734 for the slain officer's family.",
"CNN's Greg Botelho, Athena Jones, Vivian Kuo, Eric Fiegel and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- She's only 34, but Drew Barrymore has spent a lifetime in Hollywood.",
"Since her acting debut aged seven the petite star known for her free-spirited energy and girl power credo has acted in and produced more than 40 films -- all of which she has drawn on for her directorial debut, \"Whip It.\"",
"Hollywood actress, producer and now, director, Drew Barrymore on the set of debut feature \"Whip It.\"",
"\"I've learned a lot in the time that I've been in this business and I wanted to apply all those lessons in the first film I directed,\" she told CNN at the movie's Los Angeles premiere Wednesday.",
"\"Whip It\" tells the story of Bliss Cavendar, a misunderstood Texan teenager forced to follow in the footsteps of her beauty pageant mother.",
"Should actors direct films or should they stick to the day job?",
"Tell us below in the SoundOff box .",
"But life takes a turn when Bliss, played by Ellen Page of \"Juno,\" discovers the rough and tough world of female roller derby.",
"She joins a team called the Hurl Scouts, rechristening herself Babe Ruthless.",
"Page -- who Barrymore has called the \"angel\" of her story -- leads a cast of wild women on skates, including Juliette Lewis and Barrymore herself, who plays Smashley Simpson, a hippie with anger issues.",
"Barrymore, who has led a varied Hollywood career since \"E.T.\"",
"launched her as a child star in the 1980s, said directing her first film was a dream come true.",
"\"I've been waiting to make this film my whole life and to tell this story,\" she told CNN last month at the comedy drama's world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.",
"Based on the novel \"Derby Girl\" by Shauna Cross, who also wrote the screenplay, \"Whip It\" continues the girl power spirit of earlier Barrymore projects like the \"Charlie's Angels\" franchise.",
"Over the years Barrymore has become a bankable actress, with roles in a stack of frothy rom coms like \"The Wedding Singer\" and \"50 First Dates\" under her belt.",
"Barrymore has also explored more serious fare, most recently earning critical acclaim for her portrayal of eccentric Little Edie Beale in the TV movie \"Grey Gardens,\" as well as moving into producing.",
"Her production company, Flower Films, produced both \"Charlie's Angels\" movies.",
"Barrymore has said that, naturally, she was nervous about making her first feature film.",
"She was unsure of whether she'd be able to pull it off, but didn't let fear stop her from taking on the challenge.",
"She was drawn to the varied elements of the \"Whip It\" screenplay, which covers themes of love and friendship, as well as a conflict, between Bliss and her mother, played by Marcia Gay Harden.",
"Barrymore may have been a newbie at directing, but actress Page was impressed with her skills.",
"Page told CNN that working with Barrymore was \"absolutely mind blowing\" and called it one of the best experiences she's had.",
"What does Barrymore attribute her success to?",
"\"I think if you respect the people you work with and you show up prepared and confident, then what you give is the room to have fun and give them the floor.\"",
"The film opens across the U.S. Friday."
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"Barrymore says she drew on \"all those lessons\" from her years in Hollywood ."
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"(CNN) -- The grandmother of a missing Maine toddler says no family members in the home the night the girl vanished had anything to do with her disappearance.",
"\"I feel violated.",
"Somebody came into my home and took my granddaughter who was sleeping,\" Phoebe DiPietro said during her first television interview about Ayla Reynolds, the now 21-month-old toddler.",
"Ayla disappeared December 17.",
"Police have said they believe foul play was involved.",
"They also say the DiPietros have fully co-operated in the investigation.",
"Sitting in her living room, steps away from Ayla's bedroom, DiPietro said she heard nothing while she slept that night.",
"She wasn't the last one to go to bed that night and wasn't sure whether the doors were locked.",
"She and her son suspect the child was abducted.",
"Update: Grandmother changes story .",
"\"I'm sure that eventually they will be able to let us know how someone go into the house whether it was an unlocked window, an unlocked door, I don't know,\" DiPietro said.",
"'If I knew, it wouldn't have happened,\" she added.",
"Investigators have said there were several adults in the DiPietro home that night, including DiPietro and her 24-year-old son.",
"Police won't identify the others, nor reveal much else.",
"Neither will Phoebe DiPietro.",
"She says detectives have asked her and her son not to divulge details of what happened that night to avoid possibly hindering the investigation.",
"\"I can tell you there was not a party here at the house.",
"Just beyond that, I can't answer any questions.\"",
"She says her son put Ayla to bed every night.",
"DiPietro says it was her son Justin (Ayla's father) who told her Ayla was missing.",
"She would not say what time, where she was when she heard or elaborate.",
"Police have said the little girl was put to bed about 8 that night and that her father reported her missing the next morning just before 9.",
"DiPietro revealed she told investigators about \"oddities\" in the house after Ayla disappeared.",
"She would not describe what they were.",
"She added that she doesn't think police want her to disclose that information.",
"Ayla's grandmother also said she allowed police to immediately search her house without a warrant, and that she and her son have undergone several interrogations.",
"She says she answered all their questions and prepared several written statements of what happened that night at their request.",
"The police had full access to the house for about three weeks from mid-December until the end of the month.",
"DiPietro says police searched everywhere, fingerprint dust was all over the place.",
"They left her a list of what was removed, including laptop computers and cell phones that belonged to her and her son.",
"The phones and computers have now been returned.",
"Ayla's room, she says, has been turned upside down by investigators searching for clues.",
"Maine State Police took the lead in the investigation, at the request of the Waterville police, because they now consider it a criminal investigation based \"on evidence gathered by investigators.\"",
"The FBI and Maine Warden Service are also involved in the case.",
"Ayla was last seen wearing pajamas that said \"Daddy's Princess.\"",
"DiPietro says she believes investigators are doing all they can to find Ayla.",
"She also discounted claims by Ayla's mother that Justin DiPietro may have abused or mistreated his daughter.",
"The toddler's parents don't live together.",
"Ayla's mother previously has been in rehab.",
"Ayla had been wearing a soft sling on her left arm.",
"Her grandmother says Ayla's arm was injured during an accidental fall.",
"At the time, she says her son was coming home with Ayla.",
"DiPietro says she heard a thud at the back door.",
"It was dark at the time, and she says her son had slipped on the stairs outside the side door and fell with Ayla in his arms.",
"DiPietro ran to help them both.",
"The youngster was crying but didn't immediately appear injured.",
"The next morning, one of her hands swelled and she was taken to an emergency room for treatment.",
"She says her son would never harm Ayla.",
"\"Justin is a great dad.",
"He truly, truly is.",
"And I know he loves Ayla,\" his mother said.",
"Ayla's grandmother gently stroked a sparkly red dress with a sales tag still hanging on it.",
"it was supposed to be a Christmas present for Ayla.",
"Tears rolled down her cheek.",
"\"I'd give everything I owned if we can have her back.\""
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"The grandmother notices \"oddities\" in the house after toddler disappeared .",
"\"There was no party at the house,\" grandmother says ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Thousands gathered in the Egyptian capital on Friday in a mass demonstration against the country's armed forces and its heavy-handed treatment of protesters, which has since drawn international condemnation.",
"Protesters could be seen erecting tents in Cairo's Tahrir Square, a location widely considered the epicenter of an uprising that brought down Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year.",
"The move marks the latest in a series of protests around the capital, where at least 16 people were killed in recent days amid clashes with Egyptian authorities.",
"The unrest appears to largely stem from a stretch of assaults by police and defiant protests by demonstrators demanding that Egypt's ruling military cede power to a civilian government.",
"Protesters on Friday could be heard singing the country's national anthem and chanting slogans, such as \"The honor of Egyptian women is a red line.\"",
"They also put up a large projector screen in the city's square, which showed videos of violence against protesters and included testimonials by the injured and family members of those recently killed.",
"Days of clashes were further stoked last weekend by the beating of a woman at the hands of military officers, prompting Tuesday's so-called \"Million Women\" march, billed as an attempt to highlight regime violence against female demonstrators.",
"Egypt's ruling military council later expressed \"great regret\" to the women over recent attacks and vowed to hold accountable those responsible.",
"Security forces, meanwhile, on Friday appeared largely absent from the demonstration, according to CNN personnel at the scene.",
"But political groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party, as well as the Salfi Islamic Movement, said they were boycotting the events.",
"The country's Islamic Wasat Party, however, has decided to participate.",
"Elsewhere in Cairo, hundreds of protesters converged on the city's Abasya Square, chanting slogans such as \"No to Destruction.\"",
"Large crowds also gathered in similar demonstrations in the Egyptian cities of Alexandria and Suez, according to state television.",
"On Wednesday, Egypt's military announced on Facebook that they had acquired information of a \"plan to vandalize government buildings and topple Egypt on January 25, 2012.\"",
"The date would mark the one-year anniversary of the start of Egypt's uprising that largely began in Tahrir square on January 25, 2011.",
"Demonstrators have also called for the country's presidential elections, scheduled to take place in June, to be moved ahead to instead take place on the anniversary.",
"A Ministry of Health spokesman, meanwhile, said that some 30 ambulances have been stationed near Tahrir Square and a field hospital has been set-up in anticipation of possible clashes."
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"Demonstrators demand that Egypt's ruling military cede power to a civilian government .",
"Demonstrators are calling for presidential elections to be moved ahead to January ."
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"NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) -- The skull of a female Homo erectus -- the first-ever discovery -- suggests the upright ancestors of humans may have been physiologically closer to modern gorillas and chimpanzees.",
"Frederick Kyalo Manthi holds the Homo erectus complete skull he discovered in 2000 near lake Turkana in Kenya.",
"Homo erectus, long viewed as a crucial evolutionary link between modern humans and their tree-dwelling ancestors, may have been more ape-like than previously thought, scientists said Thursday.",
"Unveiling newfound fossils, a team of Kenyan scientists said they were surprised to find that early female hominids were much smaller than males.",
"Gorillas and chimpanzees also exhibit big differences in size between males and females.",
"The fossils, an ancient skull and a jawbone from two early branches of the human family tree -- Homo erectus and Homo habilis, were revealed at Kenya's National Museum.",
"Both fossils were found in 2000 east of Lake Turkana.",
"But the Homo erectus skull, dating back 1.55 million years, was slightly older than the Homo habilis jawbone, which was found to be 1.44 million years old, the scientists said.",
"\"Prior to the discovery of the new specimens, scientists did not know that Homo erectus males were far larger than the females,\" said Dr Emma Mbua, one of the team.",
"\"This sexual dimorphism [two forms of the same species] is considered a primitive character because it occurs in other apes,\" she said, standing in front of the bones at the museum.",
"She said this could also mean the sexual behavior of Homo erectus was more like that of apes, where individuals, especially males, mate with several partners, sometimes in a few hours, than that of its more monogamous human successors.",
"The fossils, discovered in east Africa's Rift Valley, regarded as the \"cradle of humankind\", challenge the idea that human prototypes evolved one after the other in a linear fashion from Homo habilis to Homo erectus, ending with modern humans.",
"This means they must have co-existed in different habitats at the same time, the scientists added.",
"\"They were kind of sisters, if you like,\" said Frederick Manthi, the scientist who discovered the fossils.",
"\"Homo habilis never gave rise to Homo erectus.",
"These discoveries have completely changed the story.\"",
"The research, first published in the journal Nature, was conducted by nine scientists including well-known paleontologist Maeve Leakey and her daughter Louise Leakey.",
"The scientists think both Homo erectus and Homo habilis must have evolved from a common ancestor 2-3 million years ago.",
"The most famous such ancestor is Ethiopia's \"Lucy,\" a fossil more than 3 million years old that set off this week for a tour of museums in the United States.",
"The basic evolutionary story -- that all humans came \"out of Africa\" after evolving from apes in the Rift Valley around 5 million years ago -- remains unchanged and may even be strengthened, the scientists said.",
"\"The more fossils we find in Kenya, the more we justify the story that east Africa is the cradle of mankind,\" Manthi said.",
"\"These hominids tell us there was a large diversity within this species, which strengthens that convention.\"",
"The researchers said Homo habilis was largely a herbivore, likely to have foraged for fruits in greener, more heavily forested areas than Homo erectus, who is thought to have been a hunter who thrived in east Africa's open savannah.",
"Manthi said the team would have to find more fossils to confirm the findings.",
"\"The story of human evolution has not yet been [told],\" said Kenya Museum director Farah Idle.",
"\"There are many missing links.",
"The more discoveries you make, the more questions you raise.\"",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"Copyright 2007 Reuters.",
"All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed."
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"Newly discovered fossils show female hominids were much smaller than males .",
"Fossils from Homo erectus, Homo habilis were found in east Africa's Rift Valley ."
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"(CNN) -- The story of their deaths -- hacked with hatchets, doused in gasoline before the home they were in exploded, according to police -- has been well documented.",
"Six days later, hundreds packed a Tacoma, Washington, church to remember the lives of young Braden and Charlie Powell, describing them as intelligent, compassionate, joyful boys who made big impressions in a short time.",
"\"This moment is about two beautiful boys,\" Dean Curry, lead pastor at the Life Center church, said to open Saturday's memorial service.",
"Authorities say the boys' father, Josh Powell, snatched them from a social worker who was delivering them for a supervised visit Sunday, locking the doors before killing them, as well as himself, just minutes before his Puyallup, Washington, home exploded.",
"The children's mother, Susan Cox-Powell, hasn't been seen since December 2009.",
"Law enforcement authorities in West Valley City, Utah, had identified only one person, Josh Powell, as someone they were investigating in relation to her disappearance.",
"Members of both the Powell and Cox families attended Saturday's service.",
"\"Mark this moment.",
"These two families, who have had so much pain, have come together, have set aside very dark and hurtful moments to celebrate children,\" Curry said.",
"\"May each and every one of us remember their example.\"",
"The memorial featured snapshots of the boys, as well as tributes from their teachers.",
"Tammy Oughton recalled Charlie Powell, a former student in her kindergarten class who turned 7 last month, as an \"amazing young man\" who displayed a \"keen intellect and a compassionate heart.\"",
"Within Carson Elementary School in Puyallup, \"Charlie was known as the little scientist\" -- due to his love of nature and vast knowledge, Oughton said.",
"She also noted how much the first-grader loved to write, as well as how \"classmates liked the silly little things that he did to make them laugh.\"",
"\"We will miss him, but he will not be forgotten,\" she said.",
"Charlie's younger brother, Braden, who also celebrated a birthday in January, turning 5, was remembered as a \"budding puzzlemaster,\" \"tickle monster\" and loving boy in remarks from one of his pre-kindergarten instructors, Kristy King.",
"At the YMCA program he attended, Braden was known for the \"huge smile on his angelic face,\" as well as his \"contagious, joyful energy.\"",
"King described him as affectionate, always quick to hold a teacher's hand and reluctant to let go.",
"\"Braden had an enthusiasm for life and took pleasure in everything,\" she said.",
"\"He had a heart of gold.\"",
"The boys' grandparents Charles and Judith Cox, who were engaged in a long and bitter child custody battle with Josh Powell, took the stage briefly.",
"Charles Cox said that the support they've received since their daughter went missing \"helps us to be strong, and helps to know that there are good people.\"",
"He also expressed thanks for the support his grandsons had received, saying, \"All their teachers, their social workers, the police: Everyone was doing everything they possibly could to keep them safe, and to help them and love them.\"",
"While Susan Cox-Powell has not been found, her father suggested that he believes she is dead -- and that she is now reunited with her sons in heaven.",
"\"We know that they are with their mother,\" he said."
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"A memorial service is held in Tacoma for Braden and Charlie Powell .",
"The boys' father struck the boys with a hatchet and blew up his home, police say .",
"\"We know that they are with their mother,\" their grandfather says .",
"The mother, Susan Cox-Powell, was last seen in December 2009 ."
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"(CNN) -- The bodies of two ATV enthusiasts missing since Sunday in California's Mojave Desert were found Thursday after a massive search, authorities said.",
"Kern County, California, sheriff's Lt. Steve Hansen said the bodies of Daniel Preddy Carbonaro, 27, and Chris Wayne Rice, 29, were found and the search was ended.",
"He had no additional details.",
"Carbonaro and Rice, both of Santa Barbara, California, had traveled to a remote corner of the desert with their girlfriends, hoping to test out Rice's new 2011 Polaris ATV, family members said.",
"The area is popular with \"off-roaders,\" campers and recreational enthusiasts.",
"\"I am so sad to report it is official, Dan and Chris were found deceased,\" said the search's Facebook page, \"Friends of the Chris Rice and Dan Carbonaro search.\"",
"A memorial fund was set up on the site.",
"The two young men left a Randsburg, California, hotel about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, telling their girlfriends where they were headed and saying they'd be back within a few hours.",
"The two planned to travel by ATV about 15 miles to the Cuddeback Dry Lake Bed in San Bernardino County, an expansive and popular \"off-roading\" area.",
"It was a \"dark, moonless night,\" said Carbonaro's father, Robert Carbonaro, who worried as the search was under way that the two \"may have gotten disoriented.\"",
"Carbonaro said he was worried about abandoned gold mine shafts in the area.",
"But Kern County authorities said the bodies were found in a ravine area with rugged, steep terrain.",
"Agencies participating in the search for the two men included the Kern County Sheriff's Office; the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department; the California Highway Patrol; the Bureau of Land Management; and the Indian Wells Mine Rescue Team.",
"Relatives of the two men were out searching alongside authorities as well, Robert Carbonaro said."
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"They had been missing since Sunday .",
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"(CNN) -- Bollywood movie star Dev Anand, a fixture in the Indian film industry for decades, has died of an apparent heart attack, CNN IBN reported Sunday.",
"He was 88. Anand died in a London hotel Saturday night, his family said.",
"The legendary Indian actor was known for his roles in a series of movies, including \"Johnny Mera Naam,\" \"Des Pardes\" and \"Hare Rama Hare Krishna.\"",
"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered his condolences Sunday.",
"\"Dev Anand was a great artist who entertained generations of cinema lovers over five decades,\" Singh said in a statement, according to CNN IBN.",
"\"He was an embodiment of a life long passion for acting and film making.",
"I join millions of his fans in mourning his death.\"",
"The star, who was known for his good looks and leading roles in romantic movies, released his book, \"Romancing with Life\" in 2007."
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"Bollywood star Dev Anand dies in London Saturday night .",
"Legendary Indian actor is known for his roles in a series of movies .",
"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered his condolences Sunday ."
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"New York (CNN) -- The actress' appearances on the silver screen transformed men with hearts of stone into quivering masses during Hollywood's Golden Age.",
"On Tuesday night, the simple fact that they were once worn by Elizabeth Taylor transformed the silver, the stones and the gold themselves -- into fortunes.",
"If the prices commanded by Christie's auction house are any indication, the British-American actress' luster appears to have rubbed off on the jewels she once wore.",
"The items in her collection rocketed far beyond their original estimates.",
"For example, the 50-carat pearl known as La Peregrina, given to her in 1969 by actor Richard Burton and once part of the crown jewels of Spain, went for $11.8 million, which Christie's said was the highest recorded price ever of pearl jewelry sold at auction.",
"Its value had been estimated at $2 million to $3 million.",
"The pearl was mounted onto a specially commissioned diamond-and-ruby Cartier necklace.",
"A diamond tiara given to Taylor by her husband, Mike Todd, estimated at $80,000 pre-auction brought in a surprising $4.2 million.",
"The Taj Mahal, an Indian diamond and jade pendant sold for $8.8 million.",
"Its initial estimate was a range of $300,000 - $500,000.",
"An emerald and diamond necklace went for $6.1 million.",
"And the sale of the Elizabeth Taylor Diamond fetched $8.8 million more, capping a spectacular night of bidding that included other jewelry.",
"The auction continues through Friday with sales of clothing and film memorabilia.",
"More than 400 people filled the bidder seats and more than a dozen Christie's staffers were on the phone with buyers.",
"Before the bidding started, the auction house played a two-minute video showing clips from some of Taylor's movies, including \"Giant,\" \"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\" and \"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.\"",
"Also included was an undated clip showing the actress clad in a white swimsuit at poolside, her head wrapped in a towel, bidding for jewelry by phone.",
"\"It's now $120,000,\" says an unidentified male voice from the other end of the line.",
"\"Do you want me to bid?\" \"Yes!\" says Taylor, holding a cigarette, then leaning into the speakerphone.",
"\"Darling, it sounds like things that are really desirable are going to go for 10 times what expected, right?\"",
"\"That's the way it works,\" a male voice responds from the other end of the line.",
"\"Holy cow!\" she says. At that, the Christie's audience breaks into laughter and applause.",
"Her dazzling collection of jewels, many of which were given to her as presents by husbands, were referred to in September -- as the auction was being planned -- by Jonathan Rendell, deputy chairman of Christie's Americas, as \"the crown jewels of Hollywood.\"",
"Keith Penton, head of the jewelry department at Christie's, said then that Taylor's taste in jewels was \"extraordinarily refined.",
"She really understood her gemstones (and) she had a passion for design and workmanship, quite a rare combination.\"",
"According to Nancy Schoenberger, co-author of the book \"Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, The Marriage of the Century,\" Taylor developed her taste for jewels from a young age.",
"\"Her father was an art and antiques dealer,\" Schoenberger said.",
"But it wasn't until Taylor's marriage to Todd that her passion for collecting serious jewels took hold, Schoenberger said in September.",
"Todd, Taylor's third husband, bought her a 29.4-carat diamond ring as well as a diamond tiara, which she wore to the 1957 Academy Awards.",
"Schoenberger believes that when Burton bought Taylor the 33.19-carat Krupp Diamond ring in 1968 -- possibly the star piece in the exhibition at Christie's, estimated to fetch between $2.5 million and $3.5 million -- he was trying to out-do Mike Todd, who had died unexpectedly just over a year into his marriage with Taylor.",
"\"I think that was a big deal for Richard, to buy her a diamond as big as Mike Todd's.",
"And he liked showing that the son of a Welsh coal-miner could buy his lady love these extravagant jewels,\" she said.",
"The actress, who died this year at age 79, eulogized her love of gems in her 2002 memoir, \"My Love Affair With Jewelry.\"",
"In it, she wrote: \"I never, never thought of my jewelry as trophies.",
"I'm here to take care of them and to love them.",
"When I die and they go off to auction I hope whoever buys them gives them a really good home.\"",
"In memory of the actress's life-long devotion to humanitarian causes, a portion of profits generated by admissions, events and select publications related to the sales will be donated to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF), which she set up in 1991.",
"CNN's Joe Vaccarello contributed to this report ."
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"50-carat \"La Peregrina\" pearl goes for $11.8 million .",
"Its value had been estimated at $2 million to $3 million ."
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"(CNN) -- A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Ohio on Saturday, one week after a similar but smaller tremor rattled the region, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.",
"The quake was centered 5 miles northwest of Youngstown and 6 miles southeast of Warren, the agency said.",
"The quake's epicenter was 55 miles east-southeast of Cleveland, and 145 miles northeast of Columbus.",
"According to the preliminary estimate, the earthquake struck 1.4 miles deep.",
"There was a lot of shaking \"and a rumbling sound,\" said Jimmy Hughes, a former Youngstown police chief running for sheriff of Mahoning County.",
"\"I could see the house move...",
"It seemed like the ground was moving. \"",
"The quake struck one day after Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director James Zehringer announced that work would be halted on a fluid-injection well in Youngstown, due to fears it could be contributing to a recent apparent spike in seismic activity in the area.",
"According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an injection well \"is a device that places fluid deep underground into porous rock formations, such as sandstone or limestone, or into or below the shallow soil layer.\"",
"The decision came after the state of Ohio invited experts from Columbia University to collect more information about seismic activity in the area.",
"The well is owned and permitted to North Star Disposal, a Youngstown company, according to the state.",
"\"While conclusive evidence cannot link the seismic activity to the well, Zehringer has adopted an approach requiring prudence and caution regarding the site,\" the department said in a press release.",
"Ben Lupo -- CEO of D&L Energy, an independent natural gas and oil exploration, production and marketing group that oversees the North Star well -- recently told CNN affiliate WKBN that there's full cooperation with experts, though he expressed grave doubts that the injection wells were to blame for the quakes.",
"\"We have approximately 1,000 wells between Ohio and Pennsylvania and we've never had a problem ... with an earthquake or spill,\" Lupo said.",
"One of the Columbia University experts, Dr. Won-Young Kim, said that a problem could arise if fluid moves through the ground and affects \"a weak fault, waiting to be triggered.\"",
"He explained the underground waste \"slowly migrates\" and could cause issues miles away, adding that the danger could persist for some time as the water travels and seeps down toward the fault.",
"\"In my opinion, yes,\" the recent spate of earthquakes around Youngstown is related to this fluid-injection well, Kim claimed -- though there has been no definitive determination, by the state or authorities, indicating as much.",
"There have been \"moderately frequent\" reports of earthquakes in northern Ohio since the first one was reported in 1823, the federal agency noted.",
"A 1986 tremor, measuring magnitude 4.8, caused some damage.",
"Another in 1998 measured a 4.5 and was centered in northwestern Pennsylvania.",
"According to the Ohio Seismic Network, a 2.7-magnitude earthquake struck around Youngstown around 1:24 a.m. on December 24.",
"\"No damage was reported,\" the network said on its website.",
"The state of Ohio has documented 11 \"seismic events\" in 2011 -- each of them, at that point, of magnitude 2.7 or lower.",
"The Department of Natural Resources Director noted that a 4.0 magnitude quake, like the one on Saturday, releases approximately 40 times more energy than a 2.7 magnitude tremor.",
"Youngstown police Sgt.",
"Michael Kawa said that the latest tremor \"shook the whole building we were in,\" but that there were no signs of significant damage in the city.",
"That appeared to hold true elsewhere in the eastern Ohio city, based on early post-quake surveys.",
"\"A lot of house alarms, it shook the buildings,\" Kawa said of the aftermath.",
"\"The fire department hasn't reported any major damage.\"",
"Within just over three hours of the quake, nearly 4,000 people from 357 zip codes and 23 cities -- including one as far as Salem, Massachusetts, 515 miles from the epicenter -- had submitted reports to the U.S. Geological Survey's \"Did you feel it?\"",
"form on its website.",
"Ohio is far from the Earth's major tectonic plates, with the nearest ones in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, the U.S. Geological Survey explains on its website.",
"Still, there are many known faults in this region, with the federal agency noting that it is likely there additional \"smaller or deeply buried\" ones that haven't been detected.",
"\"Few, if any, earthquakes in the seismic zone can be linked to named faults,\" according to the geological survey.",
"CNN's Dan Verello contributed to this report."
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"NEW: An energy company owner says the wells have never caused any problems .",
"NEW: A Youngstown man says after the tremor, \"I could see the house move\"\nThe quake was centered 5 miles northwest of Youngstown and 1.4 miles below the surface ."
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"(CNN) -- World No. 1 Novak Djokovic saved a match point before finally overcoming Tomas Berdych in his opening match of the ATP World Tour Finals in London on Monday.",
"The Serbian triumphed 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-3) against the seventh-ranked Czech in two hours and 40 minutes, after an injured Andy Murray went down to 2007 runner-up David Ferrer in the day's first Group A fixture.",
"\"Throughout most of the match he was the better player, I was just hanging in there and I managed to get the win,\" Djokovic said.",
"\"You have to be top of your game in order to win the matches in this event.",
"I wasn't on top of my game but I managed to take my chances.\"",
"Berdych beat Djokovic in the 2010 Wimbledon semifinals but had lost their seven other encounters on hard courts.",
"He raced to a 4-0 lead in the first set as his opponent looked rusty after pulling out in the Paris Masters quarterfinals due to shoulder problems which have worried him since winning the U.S. Open in September.",
"Nadal edges Fish in Group B marathon .",
"Djokovic came back strongly in the second, and had to battle back from 4-2 down in the decider and then escaped at 6-5 on his own serve as Berdych hit the net with a forehand.",
"The 26-year-old made more nervous errors in the tiebreak as Djokovic went 5-1 clear, inexplicably hitting another forehand wide and then smashing a volley long.",
"It was Djokovic's 70th win in 74 matches this season, in which he has won three of the four grand slam events and toppled Rafael Nadal from the top of the rankings.",
"He won the season-ending championships in 2008 before it moved from Shanghai to the UK capital.",
"The 24-year-old is second in the group after Ferrer's straight-sets win, but can redress that when he meets the Spaniard on Wednesday.",
"Can Federer make finals history?",
"World No. 3 Murray said he will decide on Tuesday whether he will be fit enough to continue against Berdych after struggling with a groin injury during his 6-4 7-5 defeat by Ferrer.",
"\"You've got to sometimes do the right thing.",
"I didn't know exactly how it was going to feel on the court today,\" the Scot said after his second defeat in 19 matches since the U.S. Open -- the other one came against Berdych in Paris this month.",
"\"I haven't been able to do too much training this week.",
"I played, I didn't feel particularly great.",
"I'll see if I feel any better tomorrow.\"",
"Fifth-ranked Ferrer was delighted after ending a run of four defeats to Murray.",
"\"I'm very happy. I beat Andy, in London, in his home.",
"It is not easy. I played very consistent all the match,\" he said.",
"\"I think it was important to start winning the match, and if you win in two sets it is better with the group.",
"You know you need to win one more match, because it is very difficult to reach the semifinals winning only one match.",
"I think this tournament is very, very special.",
"It is very important.\" Top doubles seeds Mike and Bob Bryan won their opening Group A match, with the Americans beating seventh-ranked U.S. Open champions Jurgen Melzer of Austria and Philipp Petzschner of Germany 6-7 (4-7) 7-5 10-7.",
"Indian fourth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes suffered a surprise 7-6 (8-6) 6-1 defeat by the sixth-ranked debutant pairing of Sweden's Robert Lindstedt and Romania's Horia Tecau."
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"Novak Djokovic beats Tomas Berdych in a third-set tie-break in Group A opener .",
"Serbian saves a match point to triumph at the season-ending championships .",
"Fifth seed David Ferrer upsets home hope Andy Murray in Monday's first game .",
"World No.",
"3 Murray struggling with groin injury and may quit the tournament ."
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"(CNN) -- Vice President Xi Jinping of China, the man set become the country's next paramount leader, is scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama and other officials on Tuesday during a U.S. visit that is likely to help burnish Xi's statesmanly credentials at home and abroad.",
"The planned meetings have thrust Xi, who is expected to become head of the ruling Communist Party later this year, onto center stage in both the American and Chinese news media.",
"Hu undertook a similar visit 10 years ago as he was being groomed for the top job.",
"But beneath the carefully choreographed presentation of the high-profile meetings lies a range of contentious issues on which Xi has little incentive to give ground, including trade and China's growing military presence.",
"\"I think he's going to be be tough with a smile on his face,\" said James McGregor, senior counselor for the communications firm APCO Worldwide in China.",
"\"He's gonna appear to be a very friendly man.",
"But he has to be tough because he's still talking to an audience back here.\"",
"The subject of Xi's five-day trip and what it portends for U.S.-Chinese relations in the coming years has received heavy coverage in state-run media in China.",
"\"The U.S. has never met a competitor like China before,\" the Global Times, an English-language newspaper run by the Communist Party, said in an editorial published Monday that noted China's global clout in manufacturing and exports.",
"The Obama administration, under pressure from stubbornly high unemployment figures in an election year, has already taken steps concerning China's role in global trade.",
"Obama mentioned China by name when he announced in his State of the Union address last month that he was creating a trade enforcement unit to bring cases against other countries.",
"There is also persistent tension over China's efforts to control the level of its currency, the renminbi, which U.S. officials say make it undervalued.",
"Xi, 58, is very well versed in these issues, according to Jon Huntsman, the former Republican presidential hopeful who was U.S. ambassador to China between 2009 and 2011.",
"\"He's gone out of his way in recent years to bone up economics and trade, knowing full well that these are the issues that are going to determine whether or not the United States and China are able to get through the years to come,\" Huntsman said.",
"Chinese officials are aware of U.S. concerns, but Xi and other leaders face the challenge of keeping China's hundreds of millions of workers content as economic growth starts to ease from the torrid levels of recent years.",
"Policy makers in Beijing are grappling with how to tackle rapidly rising prices and the widening gap between rich and poor.",
"\"I want a job,\" said Xie Yingling, an unemployed welder in the coastal province of Fujian, where Xi used to be governor.",
"\"Our local economy is just bad.",
"I find even a bowl of noodles too expensive here.\"",
"Xi's engagements in the United States began Monday with a dinner in Washington attended by the former U.S. secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright.",
"He was given a less cordial welcome by activists advocating Tibetan independence who started unfurling a banner on Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington on Monday afternoon.",
"The activists were detained by the police before being released.",
"Beijing has been struggling in recent weeks to contain unrest among ethnic Tibetans in the southwestern province of Sichuan.",
"It has sent additional security forces to the region after Tibetan protesters set themselves on fire and clashed with police to express frustration with Chinese rule.",
"On Tuesday, Xi was scheduled to meet with Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.",
"He will also attend a round-table discussion with U.S. and Chinese business executives.",
"After Washington, Xi will travel Wednesday to Iowa, a state he first visited as a local official in the 1980s.",
"He is visiting the United States amid the rhetoric and political uncertainty of presidential election campaigning.",
"But upheaval is also under way in China through the leadership transition that is set to result in Xi's taking charge later this year.",
"With about 70% of the country's top 200 officials expected to be swapped out during the process, Huntsman said Xi is \"stepping into the forefront of China's political leadership structure at a time of enormous change.\""
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"The Chinese vice president is in the United States for a five-day visit .",
"Xi Jinping is expected to become China's president later this year .",
"He is scheduled to meet with President Obama and other top officials .",
"Observers expect Xi to take a tough line on issues like trade ."
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"Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- The Internet doesn't have a flag or a national anthem, but it does have a government.",
"For the most part that would be the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers , which faces near-constant scrutiny from countries, corporations and netizens.",
"Think of ICANN as the head referee of a heated sporting event, under fire from all sides and rarely able to please everyone.",
"Last week, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission wrote a letter saying ICANN has long failed to provide safeguards that protect consumers from online swindlers and help cybersecurity officials catch such crooks.",
"In the letter, the FTC also criticized a major ICANN initiative that would let Internet users run their own domain-name extensions, to accompany .com, .org and others.",
"The federal agency fears that a quick expansion of domains, a project that has been several years in the making, would increase the likelihood that scammers could trick people who enter common misspellings, such as Amazon.comm.",
"The government is also concerned that it will have a more difficult time getting information about website owners after the switch.",
"\"The potential for consumer harm is great, and ICANN has the responsibility both to assess and mitigate these risks,\" four top FTC officials wrote in a joint memo.",
"The FTC's criticisms are just another in a series of legal battles, political pressures and public name-calling that comes with being the most visible party overseeing the global Internet.",
"There are several other governmental gatekeepers for the Web, but ICANN gets the most attention, and ire.",
"As for the domain expansion, ICANN officials say they are working to improve the data they can provide to governments and police, and that they have stringent rules in place for who can register which extensions.",
"Another ongoing controversy, the .XXX extension for porn sites, was initially resisted by ICANN's board of directors.",
"But the organization now supports it and may have to defend that stance in court against adult-entertainment companies who fear the .XXX domains will marginalize their sites.",
"How ICANN works .",
"At the helm of this 23-year-old organization is ICANN president and CEO Rod Beckstrom, a confident and excitable executive with a helmet of long blond hair.",
"Beckstrom and his 130 or so employees receive a lot of guff, but they aren't afraid to give some back.",
"He says he has serious concerns about a bill in the U.S. Congress called the Stop Online Piracy Act, which shifts much of the blame for carrying illegal content onto website publishers.",
"ICANN, based near Los Angeles in Marina del Rey, California, was once closely tied to the U.S. government.",
"Although it must keep its headquarters in the United States by contract, it has bases in Belgium and Australia.",
"The United States has sometimes reluctantly loosened its grip over Internet governance.",
"Proposals for new Internet initiatives are often handed to ICANN by various Internet registry organizations, and the ICANN board votes on each.",
"The organization has to consider recommendations from a committee of national governments, and many countries have strong opinions.",
"With the Stop Online Piracy Act in the United States or systems in China and other Asian countries proposing major changes to who is responsible for what information is posted online, ICANN has to pick its battles and juggle hundreds of competing interests.",
"Its critics often overpower its allies.",
"As Internet access begins to reach practically every part of the world through the proliferation of smartphones, the network is at risk of being pulled in many different directions -- or splintering, as it has behind China's Great Firewall.",
"No government wants to be the next victim of a so-called social-media coup, in which the freewheeling nature of the Web becomes a target for censorship.",
"\"ICANN stays neutral, and it has to keep running,\" Beckstrom said in a recent interview from his office here in Silicon Valley.",
"\"We're a lot like Switzerland.\"",
"A frequent target .",
"In international politics, Switzerland is typically neutral but rarely controversial.",
"On the other hand, ICANN receives plenty of blowback for its policies, including for those with which it has little or no direct involvement.",
"For example, ICANN has been criticized for being slow to respond to a shortage of Web addresses that could make certain websites inaccessible to some people.",
"However, ICANN has a fairly small role in this transition from Internet Protocol version 4 to 6, ICANN chairman Steve Crocker said in a phone interview.",
"\"ICANN's role in all of this is very restricted, but we often get looked at as the center of these things,\" Crocker said.",
"ICANN officials say its own initiatives, such as .XXX and the global domain expansion, are controversial but necessary as the Internet keeps growing.",
"\"Any time you take a system that started out small and expand it hugely, you get a lot of changes,\" said Crocker, who was a member of the team that posted the first message to ARPANET, the Internet's predecessor.",
"Like any government, ICANN is said to make decisions slowly.",
"Crocker defends ICANN's process as thorough and sufficient.",
"After a change has been implemented, it is generally up to each country's government to enforce the rules or systems set up by ICANN.",
"\"We don't have the authority of being a government,\" he said.",
"\"If we did, that would create more problems.\"",
"The Internet's governmental bodies say they are more effective at getting things done than America's political system, which is often seen as polarized and gridlocked.",
"The Internet has an effective system of checks and balances, said John Curran, the president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers.",
"The registry is one of five international groups that propose new initiatives to ICANN.",
"\"If people (in national government) would take time to listen as much as they postulate their views, then we would have progress,\" Curran said by phone last week.",
"\"We have people actually discuss the issues.",
"We don't have people showing up with fixed positions.\"",
"The Interplanetary Internet .",
"In the efficiency-obsessed technology sector, ICANN has streamlined its system of yearly goals under Beckstrom, a former finance executive for Morgan Stanley who transitioned to high tech and cashed out at the height of the dot-com bubble in 1999.",
"Beckstrom, who has also served as a director for the U.S. National Cybersecurity Center, plans to step down in July.",
"ICANN said last week it is searching for a replacement.",
"Vint Cerf, a sage-like founding father of the Internet, has discovered ways to continue contributing to Internet governance since stepping down as ICANN chairman in 2007.",
"He is a vice president for Google with the unusual title of chief Internet evangelist.",
"\"The Internet doesn't just happen,\" Cerf said by phone.",
"\"It's a continued battle to keep it as open and accessible and free as possible.",
"And it's hard to do.\" Some of Cerf's attention has shifted to something called the Interplanetary Internet.",
"As its name implies, the plan involves designing a network that can work in outer space.",
"Light speed is fine for the Earth's Internet, but it is an obstacle when sending an e-mail to Mars.",
"But the Internet still faces major hurdles on its home planet.",
"Cerf said he believes governmental organizations, like ICANN, will need to continue to adapt.",
"\"These institutions got created in response to the forces in the ecosystem,\" Cerf said.",
"\"I would not say that this was top-down architected.",
"I don't think it could be, because these institutions got created as the demands made themselves apparent.\"",
"As new demands and stakeholders emerge, the Internet and its stewards will find obstacles, whether it's an overzealous government or the speed of light."
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"ICANN is an international organization that governs the Internet .",
"Some have criticized ICANN for how it's expanding the types of available domain names .",
"Other initiatives, such as the .XXX domains for porn sites, have been controversial .",
"The Internet is overseen by several organizations and has a checks-and-balances system ."
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"(CNN) -- Ohio State University has picked ex-Florida coach Urban Meyer as the new head of its scandal-tarred football program, the school announced Monday.",
"Meyer, a onetime Ohio State graduate assistant who led Florida to two national college football titles, will replace Jim Tressel, who resigned in May.",
"In a statement released by the university, Meyer said he was \"honored and humbled\" by the chance to lead the Buckeyes.",
"Stewart Mandel: Meyer will revive OSU program .",
"\"My duty is to ensure that Ohio State's football program reflects and enhances the academic mission of the institution,\" he said.",
"\"I am part of it, I believe in it, and I will live it.\"",
"Tressel resigned after being fined $250,000 and suspended for lying to National Collegiate Athletic Association officials investigating allegations that his players had received special benefits from local businesses.",
"The school vacated its 12 wins from the 2010 season and put itself on two years' probation after Tressel's departure.",
"Meyer's return to coaching comes just under a year after he stepped down from Florida's head coaching job, saying he needed \"to put my focus on my family and life away from the field.\"",
"He led the Gators to NCAA football titles in 2006 and 2008 during his six-year tenure."
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"Football coach replaces Jim Tressel, who resigned amid scandal in May .",
"He says he's \"honored and humbled\" by the chance to lead the Buckeyes .",
"Meyer led Florida to two college football national titles in six seasons ."
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"(CNN) -- Serena Williams could have been banned from her home U.S. Open after Sunday's final outburst, but the three-time champion has escaped with a $2,000 fine from the United States Tennis Association.",
"The American, on a two-year probation after a similar attack on a match official at the same tournament in 2009, verbally lashed out at umpire Eva Asderaki at the start of the second set of her defeat by Australia's Samantha Stosur on Sunday.",
"The 29-year-old was penalized for \"intentional hindrance\" after celebrating winning a point before it was over, and then remonstrated with the Greek official.",
"Tournament officials ruled that Williams' comments did not constitute a major offense.",
"Has Serena Williams been judged too harshly?",
"\"U.S. Open Tournament Referee Brian Earley has fined Serena Williams $2,000 following the code violation issued for verbal abuse during the women's singles final.",
"This fine is consistent with similar offenses at Grand Slam events,\" the U.S. Tennis Association said in a statement on Monday.",
"\"After independently reviewing the incident which served as the basis for the code violation, and taking into account the level of fine imposed by the U.S. Open referee, the Grand Slam Committee Director has determined that Ms. Williams' conduct, while verbally abusive, does not rise to the level of a major offense under the Grand Slam Code of Conduct.\"",
"Williams earned $900,000 for her runner-up finish in New York, with the final taking place on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks in the city which left almost 3,000 people dead.",
"Stosur stuns Serena in final .",
"She refused to apologize for her outburst in the post-match press conference, but applauded Stosur on winning her first major title.",
"Williams was fined $82,500 for her foul-mouthed tirade in the 2009 semifinal defeat by Kim Clijsters, whose bid for a fourth title at Flushing Meadow this year was ended by a pre-tournament stomach injury."
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"Serena Williams fined $2,000 for verbally abusing a match umpire in U.S. Open final .",
"American could have been banned due to a suspended punishment from 2009 .",
"Tournament officials rule that Williams' outburst did not amount to a major offense .",
"The 29-year-old was beaten by Australia's Sam Stosur, who won her first grand slam ."
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"(CNN) -- Wayne Rooney has defended himself from criticism by Roberto Mancini following Sunday's Manchester derby, in which the United striker scored two goals but appeared to play a role in City's captain being sent off.",
"City manager Mancini has officially appealed against Chris Foy's decision to dismiss Kompany in the 12th minute of the 3-2 home defeat that ended his side's English FA Cup title defense at the first hurdle, and blamed Rooney for influencing the referee.",
"Kompany slid in with two feet to win the ball off United winger Nani, who did not appeal for a foul -- but Rooney ran straight to the official and Foy ruled that it was a dangerous tackle.",
"\"It was not a red card. Rooney told him his decision,\" Mancini told reporters after the match, before referring to an incident last week when he gesticulated from the touchline to have an opposing player punished.",
"\"When I did this against Liverpool, people told me not to do it.",
"I said I was sorry and made a mistake.\"",
"Who are football's top January transfer targets?",
"Rooney, however, insisted on his Twitter account that he had done no wrong.",
"\"Funny how people think i got kompany sent off.",
"Im not ref. i didn't give red card.",
"But it was a clear red card.",
"2 footed tackle,\" he wrote on the social networking website on Monday.",
"United boss Alex Ferguson agreed with Rooney that Kompany deserved to be sent off.",
"\"I think so, I've seen him do it before -- he maybe got off in the past.",
"I think if he catches Nani then he's got a problem.\"",
"Scholes in shock return as Man Utd beat FA Cup holders Man City .",
"City's appeal will be heard ahead of Wednesday's first leg of the English League Cup semifinal against Liverpool.",
"If it fails, Kompany will miss that home match, the second leg and Premier League games against Wigan and third-placed Tottenham due to it being his second red card this season.",
"His absence would be a blow to City's hopes of winning a first league title since 1968, with the league leaders already lacking central defensive cover as Kolo Toure is away at the African Cup of Nations along with his brother, key midfielder Yaya.",
"That could mean a recall for 21-year-old Dedryck Boyata, who is on loan at Premier League strugglers Bolton, or Nedum Onuoha -- who had been expected to leave in the January transfer window as Mancini seeks to free up funds to make new signings."
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"Wayne Rooney insists that he did not influence the referee's decision to send off opponent .",
"Manchester City appeal against red card shown to captain Vincent Kompany on Sunday .",
"Belgium defender was dismissed in 12th minute of City's 3-2 FA Cup third-round defeat .",
"He could miss City's next four matches following his second such offense this season ."
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"(CNN) -- Wales went to the top of rugby union's Six Nations Championship with a 27-13 win over Scotland Sunday at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.",
"It was the second straight victory for the Welsh, who beat Ireland 23-21 in their opener in Dublin.",
"They next face England, who have also won their first two matches, at Twickenham where a victory will give them the Triple Crown.",
"Scotland, beaten by England at Murrayfield last weekend, battled to hold Wales to 3-3 at halftime.",
"But the home side dominated the second half with two tries from full-back Leigh Halfpenny, with wing Alex Cuthbert also crossing.",
"Halfpenny ended with a tally of 22 points while Scotland had the consolation of scoring their first try in five Tests as they battled bravely to stay in the match.",
"New fly-half Greig Laidlaw, in for the retired Dan Parks, crossed for the Scots, but they suffered for losing backs Nick de Luca and Rory Lamont to the sin bin after the break.",
"Down to 13-men, the Welsh took full advantage to take control and Scotland were left contemplate the wooden spoon after two straight defeats.",
"\"Yellow cards are always crucial in this day and age so everybody has to work on their discipline,\" Wales flanker and man-of-the-match Dan Lydiate told BBC Sport.",
"\"Once we go through the phases we know we're dangerous, but fair play to Scotland they came back into it.\"",
"Wales played without captain Sam Warburton, who pulled out just before the start of the match through a niggling injury.",
"England scored a narrow win over Italy Saturday in the only other Six Nations match played this weekend.",
"The clash between France and Ireland was called off due to a frozen pitch at the Stade de France."
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"Wales beat Scotland 27-13 in Cardiff in Six Nations .",
"Second straight win for the Welsh who top the table .",
"Leigh Halfpenny scores 22 points for Wales .",
"Scotland suffer second straight defeat ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities late Sunday located a 14-year-old kidney transplant patient who was taken by her father from a St. Louis hospital, where she was undergoing medical treatment, a police spokeswoman said.",
"Brittany Jones was located at a hospital in Milwaukee hours after she was seen leaving her room at Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center with her father, said Katy O'Sullivan of the St. Louis Police Department.",
"O'Sullivan said the girl's father, Dana Jones, was with her at the Milwaukee hospital.",
"Hours earlier, St. Louis authorities issued an abduction alert for Jones, warning she was in grave danger if she did not receive a scheduled medical treatment.",
"Jones, who underwent a transplant in 2010, was placed in the custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services after her doctors determined she was not getting adequate care for her condition at home, O'Sullivan said.",
"Dana Jones is believed to have taken his daughter around 2 p.m. Sunday from the St. Louis hospital, where according to surveillance footage he was seen removing her IV, walking her out of the hospital and driving off with her in his car, O'Sullivan said."
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"NEW: Brittany Jones, 14, and her father have been located at a Wisconsin hospital, police say .",
"NEW: An abduction alert was issued for Jones after she was taken from a St. Louis hospital, police say .",
"Jones, who underwent a kidney transplant in 2010, was in the custody of Illinois child protective services ."
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"(CNN) -- Rory McIlroy is enjoying the best year of his fledgling golf career, but the U.S. Open champion is already making plans to spread his wings further.",
"The 22-year-old announced on Friday that he is leaving the manager who helped turn him into potentially the next Tiger Woods, as he seeks to push himself to a new level.",
"The world No. 3 is departing Andrew \"Chubby\" Chandler's International Sports Management, which looks after second-ranked Lee Westwood, Masters winner Charl Schwartzel and British Open champion Darren Clarke.",
"He will link up with fellow Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell, the 2010 U.S. Open champion, at Dublin-based sports agency Horizon as he rejoins the PGA Tour next year.",
"\"I am now keen to move onto the next stage of my career and I feel this will be facilitated by a fresh view and a new structure around me,\" McIlroy said in a statement.",
"\"Therefore I am delighted to be joining Horizon and I look forward to working with my new team.",
"\"I would like to sincerely thank Andrew 'Chubby' Chandler and his team for their guidance, representation and management over the past four years since turning pro.",
"\"Chubby and his team have played a very important role in my success to date.",
"I have made great progress under their management and for that I will always be grateful.\"",
"McIlroy joined ISM after being the best-finishing amateur at the 2007 British Open, and the company wished him future success.",
"\"It has been an honour representing Rory and we take great pride in the role ISM has played in guiding him successfully through his formative years as a professional golfer,\" it said in a statement.",
"\"Under our management he has grown into an international figure, and he leaves us as a major champion.\"",
"Meanwhile, former world No.",
"2 Sergio Garcia was in contention to win his first title in three years after taking the halfway lead on his home course at the Castello Masters on Friday.",
"The Spaniard, now ranked 49th, shot a sizzling eight-under-par 63 in the second round to go two shots clear at the Club de Campo del Mediterraneo club where he has played since he was a child.",
"Sweden's Alexander Noren matched that score to be second on 10-under 132, two strokes clear of England's first-round leader Ross McGowan (70), Scotland's Gary Orr (67) and Australia's Marcus Fraser (64).",
"\"It's getting there,\" Garcia told the European Tour website.",
"\"It's not quite there yet -- sometimes I have a little bit of a hard time hitting a draw, but when my little fade works out I can keep it in play.",
"\"At the weekend I'll try to hit good shots, to putt well and I'm going to do my utmost.",
"It's nice to be up there, that's why we train.",
"It's even nicer to be there on Sunday afternoon.",
"Alex is right behind me, so I need to keep focused.\""
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"3 Rory McIlroy ends four-year association with manager Chubby Chandler .",
"U.S. Open champion decides to join compatriot Graeme McDowell at Horizon .",
"Chandler's company wishes McIlroy future success with his new agency .",
"Sergio Garcia takes two-shot lead at the halfway stage of Castello Masters ."
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"(CNN) -- More than 1,000 people are missing in the aftermath of a tropical storm that wreaked havoc across the southern Philippines last weekend, the country's government said Friday, as it grappled with the mounting humanitarian crisis in the region.",
"A total of 1,079 people remain unaccounted for, the Philippine National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said in a statement.",
"Earlier in the week, the disaster council said it had lost count of the number of missing as it tried to assess the scale of the destruction.",
"The death toll from Tropical Storm Washi, which set off landslides and flash floods that swept away whole villages, has risen to 1,080, according to the council.",
"The United Nations said Wednesday that the storm has created \"huge\" humanitarian needs on the island of Mindanao, the scene of the worst devastation.",
"It has made an appeal to raise $28 million to deal with the immediate problems in the area, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced in and around the port cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro.",
"\"I was shocked by scale of destruction I saw,\" David Carden, the head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Philippines told CNN on Thursday after visiting the region.",
"He said it looked as if an \"inland tsunami had struck the area.\"",
"Around 675,000 people have been affected by the storm, the disaster council said Friday, with more than 300,000 of them being taken care of at evacuation centers at the moment.",
"President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines has declared a state of national calamity following the storm.",
"The disaster council said it estimated the cost of the damage caused by the storm at more than one billion Philippines pesos ($23 million)."
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"A total of 1,079 people remain unaccounted for after Tropical Storm Washi, the government says .",
"The death toll from the storm continues to rise, reaching 1,080 .",
"More than 300,000 people are being taken care of at evacuation centers .",
"The U.N. has made an appeal to raise $28 million to deal with 'huge' humanitarian needs ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The United States has seen no unexpected moves by the North Korean military since the announcement of Kim Jong Il's death, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday.",
"Gen. Martin Dempsey said the United States is remaining \"vigilant\" in the wake of the death of the North Korean leader.",
"In the first extended on the record comments from a senior U.S. official, Dempsey told a small group of reporters he was awakened overnight to receive the news and immediately joined in an inter-agency phone call of high levels officials to discuss the situation.",
"Dempsey said the call centered on identifying the key military and intelligence indicators that the U.S. would need to watch for any early warning of instability in the regime.",
"Though Kim died on Saturday, U.S. officials only learned of his death from North Korean television on Sunday night .",
"\"The chain of command military and civilian very quickly coalesced around the fact that Kim Jong Il had died,\" Dempsey said.",
"\"We quickly established a network of leaders to discuss this issue and to determine what we could do to contribute to understanding what might happen next.\"",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke with his South Korean counterpart, Kim Kwan-Jin, on Monday morning, said Pentagon spokesman George Little.",
"\"He made it clear that the United States stands with the Republic of Korea in this time of uncertainty,\" Little said.",
"\"Both men agree it is critical to remain prudent in regards to all matters relating to our security posture there, and pledge to keep one another informed in the coming days.",
"Both men agree this is a delicate time, and they need to closely monitor developments in North Korea.\"",
"So far there are no signs of movement of troops or weapons by the North Koreans, Little said.",
"This summer, the commander of American troops in South Korea told Congress that the United States does not believe Kim Jong Un will differ much in decision making from his father or in adjusting the country's strategic priorites.",
"However, Gen. James Thurman warned of the wildcard of having such a young, inexperienced leader.",
"\"Kim Jong-un's youth and inexperience increase the likelihood of miscalculation, as does the imperative for him to establish credibility with the military hardliners he needs to support succession,\" Thurman told the Senate Armed Services Committee in a written answer.",
"Dempsey said Monday that the U.S. Pacific Command has reported it has sufficient intelligence assets in the area to keep surveillance on North Korea, but it may shift some capabilities to the peninsula from where they are currently located in the region.",
"U.S. troops in South Korea are not on any heightened state of alert, U.S. military officials said.",
"\"The commander continually assesses our security level and makes adjustments as necessary.",
"But we're operating under what's called 'normal armistice conditions.'",
"In other words, the level of readiness is as it is on any given day,\" Jennifer Buschick, spokeswoman for U.S. Forces-Korea, told CNN.",
"U.S. Forces-Korea's official website lists the current Force Protection level as \"Bravo,\" with some selected measures at a more heightened \"Charlie\" level.",
"That means they've stepped up patrols of bases, tightened gate security and ordered troops to pay special attention to \"designated vulnerable points\" both on and off base.",
"But these measures were in place before Kim Jong Il's death, along with a recent reinstatement of an overnight curfew for U.S. troops in South Korea.",
"Separately, a senior American military official says the test-firing of two short-range missiles by North Korea was expected and not considered related to the current situation.",
"\"There are strong indications (the missile test) was pre-planned, and there is no nexus to the death of the North Korean leader,\" the military official said."
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"(CNN) -- The coffin of former Czech President Vaclav Havel went on display in St. Anna's Church in central Prague Monday for people to pay their respects, the Czech News Agency reported.",
"Havel died Sunday at the age of 75, and his funeral has been scheduled for Friday, the Czech president's office said.",
"Admirers poured into the streets of Prague Sunday night with candles and flowers in memory of Havel, people on the scene said.",
"The former dissident playwright helped topple communism in eastern Europe through the power of his words, insisting, \"Truth and love triumph over lies and hate.\"",
"His longtime friend and translator Paul Wilson remembered him as a \"a very shy and gentle man with a will of steel, who was fearless when confronting a regime that tried, relentlessly, to crush his spirit.\"",
"Havel, a puckish, absurdist playwright turned political activist, spent four and a half years in prison for opposing Czechslovakia's communist government before emerging as a leader of the Velvet Revolution that swept it aside in 1989.",
"He went on to become president of Czechoslovakia and of the Czech Republic when the country split in two at the end of 1992.",
"He died peacefully in his sleep Sunday morning in the presence of his wife, Dagmar, according to his spokeswoman Sabina Tancevova.",
"A deeply serious thinker given to long, rambling statements in presidential speeches and conversation, Havel also had an impish sense of humor, reportedly whizzing through the long corridors of Prague Castle on a scooter after becoming president.",
"It was his love of rock and roll as much as his moral outrage at the communist system that brought him to prominence.",
"He co-wrote the influential Charter 77 anti-communist declaration in protest at the arrest of a Czechoslovak rock band, the Plastic People of the Universe.",
"A perennial contender for the Nobel Peace Prize, Havel never won, but he remained active in anti-communist causes from Cuba to China until his death.",
"He urged Chinese authorities to release dissident Liu Xiaobo, whose Charter 08 call for greater political freedom in China was inspired by Czechoslovakia's Charter 77.",
"Havel and other Czech dissidents attempted to deliver a letter to the Chinese Embassy in January 2010, before Liu won the Nobel Peace Prize, but they found the doors closed and no one to receive it.",
"It was an absurd scene that could have come out of one of the plays he wrote in the 1960s, poking fun at the Soviet-backed authorities who ruled his country at the time.",
"Theater proved a potent weapon against Czechoslovakia's communist rulers, who stepped down without a shot being fired in the weeks after the Berlin Wall fell, signaling the defeat of the region's authoritarian Moscow-backed regimes.",
"Havel was unanimously elected president by the last communist-run parliament of Czechoslovakia 22 years ago this month, and two months later delivered a speech to a historic joint session of the U.S. Congress.",
"The trip to Washington as president of his country came less than four months after Havel was last arrested by the communist authorities, leading him to tell Congress dryly: \"It is all very extraordinary indeed.\"",
"His country joined NATO and the European Union under his stewardship, but he lost out on many of the major domestic political battles of his presidency, including his effort to keep Czechoslovakia together.",
"He resigned as president of Czechoslovakia after national politicians agreed to divide it in two, declaring, \"I will not be president of a self-liquidating nation.\"",
"He went on to be elected president of the Czech Republic twice before writing one final play, \"Leaving,\" about a politician preparing to hand over power to a successor he despises -- widely considered one last dig at his perennial political opponent Vaclav Klaus, his successor as president.",
"Klaus Sunday called Havel a \"symbol of our renewed nation.\"",
"Havel spoke to CNN's Jim Clancy in March, reflecting on links between the Arab Spring and the fall of communism in eastern Europe.",
"\"What is also sleeping under the surface and is invisible is a longing for certain elementary freedoms and that doesn't usually break out just like that, by itself,\" Havel said.",
"\"The snowball is created, it's rolling and rolling and, very often, it turns into an avalanche.\"",
"\"Like millions around the world, I was inspired by his words and leadership.",
"... Vaclav Havel was a friend to America and to all who strive for freedom and dignity, and his words will echo through the ages,\" U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement.",
"Former U.S. President George W. Bush described Havel as a \"dignified, charming, humble, determined man\" who \"suffered much in the cause of freedom and became one of its greatest heroes.\"",
"But in his typically understated way, Havel expressed more modest wishes for how history would remember him.",
"\"I would be glad if it was felt that I have done something generally useful,\" he said.",
"\"I don't care much about personal fame or popularity.",
"I would be satisfied with the feeling that I had a chance to help with something in general, something good.",
"That history gave me that chance.\""
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"Admirers poured into the streets of Prague with candles and flowers .",
"\"Truth and love triumph over lies and hatred,\" Havel insisted .",
"He was a deeply serious thinker with a puckish sense of humor ."
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"(CNN) -- Gareth Bale scored both goals as Tottenham Hotspur bolstered their burgeoning title challenge in the English Premier League with a 2-0 win at Norwich Tuesday night.",
"The comfortable victory lifted Tottenham four points clear of fourth-placed Chelsea in the standings and within seven of Manchester City and Manchester United at the top.",
"Harry Redknapp's men also have a game in hand over all their nearest rivals and while qualification for next season's Champions League remains a more realistic expectation, the manner of their win in East Anglia would have again raised even greater hopes among their supporters.",
"The home side have surprised a number of teams on their return to the top-flight but had few sights of goal on their home ground and did not win a corner until deep into the second half.",
"Welshman Bale, who wasted opportunities in the first half, finally found the target in the 55th minute at Carrow Road as Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor set him up to fire past home goalkeeper John Ruddy.",
"His second displayed his individual brilliance as sent away by Luka Modric, the flying winger outpaced Zak Whitbread before chipping Ruddy for this seventh league goal of the season.",
"More might have followed as Tottenham kept a stranglehold on possession but they will go into their next two fixtures over the seasonal period against Swansea and West Bromwich Albion with great confidence.",
"\"We've learned a lot from last year being in the Champions League,\" man of the match Bale told Sky Sports.",
"He added: \"As long as we are creating chances that's the main thing.",
"\"We were confident we would get one whoever it fell to and lucky enough it was .",
"me.\" Earlier Tuesday, Tottenham's north London rivals Arsenal were held to a frustrating 1-1 draw by 10-man Wolves at the Emirates Stadium.",
"It left Arsene Wenger's men in fifth place, 12 points behind Manchester City and Manchester United and five adrift of Spurs.",
"Gervinho put Arsenal ahead in the eighth minute after being put through by Israeli international Yossi Benayoun.",
"But Wolves, again battling relegation, leveled just before halftime as Steven Fletcher reacted quickly to head home.",
"In the second half, Arsenal thought they should have had a penalty when Christophe Berra appeared to handball and the visitors were reduced to 10 men when Nenad Milijas was sent off for a foul on Mikel Arteta.",
"With a man advantage, the prolific Robin van Persie was kept out by Wolves keeper Wayne Hennessey, who also saved superbly from Thomas Vermaelen as Wolves held out for a point.",
"\"It is very frustrating,\" Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told AFP.",
"\"You won't play many draws like that in a season but sometimes it can happen.\"",
"In Tuesday's other match, promoted clubs Swansea and QPR shared the points in a 1-1 draw at the Liberty Stadium.",
"Swansea took a 14th-minute lead through striker Danny Graham, with QPR appealing for handball.",
"The visitors leveled in the second half when Jamie Mackie latched on to Swansea midfielder Jamie Britton's misjudged back header and shot under Michel Vorm to score."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Setting up a showdown with the White House and Senate Democrats, House Republican leaders Thursday proceeded with plans to vote next week on a proposal to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits while easing the path for approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.",
"Meanwhile, the Senate blocked competing Democratic and Republican proposals to extend the payroll tax cut from proceeding Thursday, with both failing to get the 60 votes necessary.",
"Senate Republicans halted the Democratic proposal on a 50-48 vote.",
"It included a surtax on income over $1 million to help pay for the lower payroll tax rate.",
"Republicans seeking to shrink the size of government oppose such a tax increase.",
"Opposition from both parties blocked the Republican measure, with only 22 votes in favor and 76 against it.",
"The measure would have been paid for by freezing federal pay as well as reducing the federal work force by 10%, provisions rejected by President Barack Obama and Democrats.",
"The outcome means party leaders and Obama must work out a compromise by the end of the year, when the payroll tax cut is set to expire, or face the wrath of Americans facing higher taxes in the election year of 2012.",
"On the House side, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told a closed-door meeting of GOP members that he was ready for a \"fight\" with Obama over the pipeline issue, according to two senior Republican leadership aides in the meeting.",
"Cheers went up in the room after Boehner's comment, the aides said.",
"On Wednesday, Obama said he would reject any attempt by Republicans to tie the pipeline project to the payroll tax extension issue.",
"The House proposal would shift authority from the State Department to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for approving the proposed pipeline from Canada's oil sands production in northern Alberta to Texas.",
"It also would shorten the time frame for a decision.",
"The State Department recently said its decision would be delayed until 2013 to examine environmental issues raised by critics, a move Republicans labeled as political to put off the issue until after next year's presidential election.",
"Boehner told reporters after Thursday's meeting that the pipeline project would generate \"tens of thousands of jobs immediately.\"",
"He also noted that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper supports the plan.",
"The State Department puts the jobs figure at 5,000-6,000, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, slammed the House GOP proposal on Thursday as a \"partisan joke that has no chance of passing the Senate.\"",
"The impasse sets up another countdown clock on congressional action, this time before the end-of-year holiday recess scheduled to begin at the end of next week.",
"Obama told reporters Thursday that he was willing to stay in Washington \"as long as it takes to make sure that the American people's taxes don't go up on January 1st and to make sure that folks who desperately need unemployment insurance get that help.\"",
"\"There is absolutely no excuse for us not getting it done,\" Obama said, adding that his response to efforts by Republicans \"to see what can they extract from us in order to get this done\" was \"just do the right thing.\"",
"Referring specifically to the Keystone project, Obama said that \"however many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline, there are going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance.\"",
"The House proposal, which Boehner and other leaders outlined to GOP members at Thursday's meeting, was largely similar to one they discussed last week, according to several aides.",
"It would extend the payroll tax cut for one year, continuing savings of $1,000 for families earning $50,000.",
"It also includes unemployment assistance but gives states the ability to reform the program -- including removal of a federal ban from the 1960s that prohibited states from drug-testing those who apply for unemployment benefits.",
"The GOP legislation would also shorten the time period for receiving jobless aid benefits from the current level of 99 weeks, phasing it down to 59 weeks by the middle of 2012.",
"In addition, the bill would avoid a scheduled cut in payments for Medicare physicians for two years -- the so-called \"doc fix.\"",
"Boehner noted that the bill is \"fully paid for,\" and aides said the bulk of the cost would be offset from a freeze on salaries of federal employees and members of Congress through 2015.",
"The measure would use funds from health care programs to pay for the Medicare \"doc fix\" provision.",
"Last week, GOP leaders encountered significant resistance from conservatives when they outlined their plan, with a bloc of members opposing any renewal of the payroll tax cut because the bill uses spending cuts over 10 years to pay for a one-year extension.",
"Some of those critics later said that after they talked through their concerns with leaders, they don't want to see a tax increase during the tough economy, even though they don't support the structure of the payroll tax cut.",
"Republican leaders also added a couple of new spending cuts to help attract conservative support.",
"One would eliminate the child tax credit for those in the country illegally, and another would not renew a research-and-development tax credit focused on energy programs.",
"Some Republicans noted that Obama's comments the day before opposing any effort to link extending the payroll tax cut to the Keystone pipeline helped rally support for the plan.",
"Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, leader of the fiscally conservative Republican Study Group, said he supports the bill, adding: \"Frankly, the fact that the president doesn't like it makes me like it even more.\"",
"Asked about overcoming divisions among Republicans, Boehner said feedback on the proposal was good and that \"I feel confident about our ability to move ahead.\"",
"The House is expected to vote on the bill early next week, according to several aides.",
"Even though the Republican plan could muster a majority of votes in the House, it is likely to encounter major obstacles in the Democratic-led Senate.",
"The payroll tax issue, a headache for Republicans already, threatens to become a major campaign theme for 2012.",
"Obama touched on it Tuesday in a policy address in Kansas, saying Republicans protected wealthy taxpayers from a tax increase during deficit negotiations this year, but now threaten to block the payroll tax cut extension.",
"Blocking it would cause most Americans to pay higher taxes next year.",
"Republicans, who oppose tax increases in keeping with their push to shrink the size of government, argue that Obama and Democrats are forcing votes on proposals they know won't pass in order to score political points.",
"So far, the public backs the Democratic position, with polls showing majority support for increasing the tax burden on wealthy Americans to help pay for the measure.",
"Republicans are on the defensive due to their history of arguing that tax cuts end up paying for themselves because they stimulate economic activity by letting consumers keep more of their money instead of giving it to the government.",
"Democrats are quick to point out that the mounting federal deficits dominating the Washington discussion were caused in part by reduced revenue due to tax cuts from the Bush administration.",
"Now both parties agree that any measure to extend the payroll tax cut should include provisions to reduce spending or raise revenue to offset the cost.",
"As part of a budget-cutting deal last December, Obama and Congress negotiated a reduction of 2 percentage points in the payroll tax rate -- from 6.2% to 4.2%.",
"With the reduced rate expiring on January 1, Obama and Democrats seek to expand the provision by lowering the rate even further -- to 3.1% -- for another year.",
"Republicans initially opposed the idea, saying the provision failed to create jobs last year.",
"Republican leaders now say they support an extension, but they differ with Obama and Democrats on how to pay for it.",
"The latest Senate Democratic plan calls for a 1.9% surtax on income over $1 million, as well as increased fees that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac charge mortgage lenders to guarantee repayment of new mortgage loans to cover the $180 billion cost.",
"Republicans oppose the plan because they say it will increase the tax burden on small-business owners, a contention the White House says is false.",
"In their compromise, Collins and McCaskill included a provision to exempt the income of small-business owners from the surtax.",
"However, House Republicans questioned whether it was possible to legislate such a distinction.",
"CNN's Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"Separate Democratic and Republican proposals are blocked in the Senate .",
"Raising taxes remains an unresolved issue dividing Democrats and Republicans .",
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"(CNN) -- The first of twin research spacecraft entered the moon's orbit Saturday, part of an effort to learn more about how it and other terrestrial bodies formed, NASA said.",
"The GRAIL-A -- which launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral on September 10, along with its sister spacecraft GRAIL-B -- began a \"lunar orbit insertion burn\" at about 4:30 p.m.",
"ET, NASA said on an associated Twitter feed.",
"That burn was set to finish around 5 p.m.",
"The second in the pair, GRAIL-B, will follow suit Sunday.",
"\"Burn complete!",
"#GRAIL-A is now orbiting the moon and awaiting the arrival of its twin #GRAIL-B on New Year's Day,\" NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced on Twitter.",
"The two orbiters, each 3 1/2 feet high and 2 1/2 feet deep, are named for NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory.",
"They will fly in tandem orbits, measuring the gravity field and ideally answering \"longstanding questions about the moon and (giving) scientists a better understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system formed,\" according to NASA.",
"The moon is about 250,000 miles from Earth, a distance that NASA's Apollo crews reached in about three days.",
"But the GRAIL spacecrafts took much longer, namely 3½ months, because they covered more than 2.5 million miles \"reshaping and merging their orbits\" so that they could be better positioned and coordinated to study the moon, NASA said.",
"The orbiters, whose mission was timed to miss lunar eclipses in December and June, are expected to collect data for 82 days.",
"Maria Zuber, principal investigator for GRAIL, said the moon remains mysterious in many ways and little is known about the process of how it was formed.",
"Scientists theorize that the moon formed when a Mars-sized object crashed into Earth.",
"It remains unknown why the near side of the moon is so different from the far side.",
"The basins are flooded with volcanic material on one side, and the other side has mountainous highlands.",
"Why did these sides evolve differently?",
"\"We think the answer is locked in the interior,\" Zuber said at a NASA news briefing Wednesday.",
"A study published in the journal Nature over the summer suggested that there may have been a second moon moving at about the same speed as our moon, and in the same orbit.",
"The second moon bumped into the original moon, the theory goes, and caused the formation of a mountain instead of a crater.",
"This model predicts the whole exterior of the moon was once molten and cooled from the outside in such a way that when the second moon hit our moon, it pushed all of that molten material to the near side.",
"GRAIL can help test this hypothesis.",
"The spacecraft are designed to help scientists explore the interior of the moon indirectly by measuring the pull of gravity as they fly over the surface.",
"With data about these changes in gravity and topography, scientists will be able to construct a map of what's inside our celestial neighbor.",
"Scientists wanted the spacecraft to be as small as possible so they could launch in one rocket.",
"But they weren't sure if the orbiters would make it through eclipses that happen at the moon every six months, since their technology depends on lithium-ion batteries and solar panels.",
"A lunar eclipse occurred in early December, and the next one is in June.",
"Based on the current performance, scientists think GRAIL can continue through the June eclipse.",
"Should one of the orbiters completely fail, scientists could not get the high precision they would get from the two spacecraft; the mission depends on having both, Zuber said.",
"If the lunar orbit insertion doesn't happen for one of the spacecraft, there would be another opportunity to try again in late April."
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"NEW: GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B will collect data for 82 days .",
"The mission will help scientists determine what goes on beneath the moon's surface ."
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"(CNN) -- Israel's defense minister blamed Iran for a series of bombings in the Thai capital of Bangkok Tuesday, a day after attacks against the country's diplomats in India and Georgia.",
"\"The attempted terror attack in Thailand proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to operate in the ways of terror and the latest attacks are an example of that,\" said Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who issued the statement from Singapore, where he is currently traveling.",
"\"Iran and Hezbollah are unrelenting terror elements endangering the stability of the region, and endangering the stability of the world,\" Barak added.",
"Two Iranians are now in custody in Thailand and another person is at large, the government said.",
"Five people were injured, authorities said.",
"The first bomb went off in a rental house, believed to be leased by three foreigners, according to Thai Police Maj. Gen. Pisit Pisutthisak.",
"The three fled after the blast.",
"Two of the men left the scene, he said.",
"The third man detonated two more bombs -- one when a taxi driver refused to give him a ride, and another when he tried to throw a bomb at police as they closed on him.",
"The last bomb exploded near the man, blowing off one of his legs, Pisit said.",
"He was taken to Chulalongkorn General Hospital for treatment.",
"Thai government spokeswoman Thitima Chaisaeng said the man in the hospital is Iranian, and that Iranian documents were found on him.",
"Another man arrested at the airport is holding an Iranian passport and is one of the three, Thitima said.",
"He was identified as Mohammad Hasai, 42, and was about to leave for Malaysia, she added.",
"Thitima told CNN that Thai intelligence agencies don't think the incident was an act of terror because it was carried out in a sporadic way.",
"But, she said, police think that the men may have been selling weapons and drugs.",
"Israeli Foreign Ministry personnel based overseas have been on alert in recent weeks to the heightened possibility of attacks at Israeli facilities by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Muslim militant group and political party backed by Iran.",
"Sunday marked the fourth anniversary of the death of Hezbollah leader Imad Mugniyah in a car bombing in Damascus, Syria.",
"Hezbollah holds Israel responsible for his death and has vowed revenge.",
"Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told CNN that the level of alert in the country had been raised following a security assessment after the overseas incidents in New Delhi and Tbilisi, the capitals of India and Georgia.",
"The alert means patrols will be heightened in and around various public areas inside Israel, and around Israeli embassies and offices worldwide.",
"In the Monday incidents, a device attached to an Israeli Embassy van in New Delhi exploded and injured four people.",
"Another device was found on an embassy car in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it was safety detonated.",
"The Israeli government issued a travel advisory this year for citizens traveling to Thailand after Thai security officials arrested a man in January connected with a planned attack in the country.",
"The police charged the man, Atris Hussein, after finding \"initial chemical materials that could produce bombs\" in an area just outside Bangkok.",
"Police said Hussein, who also holds a Swedish passport, led them to the location.",
"The authorities are accusing Hussein of trying to attack spots in Bangkok that are popular with Western tourists and say he is believed to belong to Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim group active in Lebanon that the United States views as a terrorist organization.",
"Police could not confirm whether the Tuesday incident in Bangkok has any link with the Hezbollah suspect, who is still in Thai police custody.",
"Officers found the explosive C-4 during the search of the rented house.",
"U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United States condemns the incident and offered its condolences to the victims.",
"Even as she noted that Thai authorities were investigating the incidents, she went on to draw a parallel between Tuesday's attacks in Bangkok and Monday's attacks against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia, both of which are also under investigation.",
"\"What I would say is that, with regard to this bombing, the incidents in Delhi, incidents in Georgia, while we will await the results of the investigations, these events do come on the heels of other disrupted attacks targeted at Israel and Western interests, including an Iranian-sponsored attack in Baku, Azerbaijan, and a Hezbollah-linked attack in Bangkok, Thailand, before this.",
"\"So they serve as a reminder that a variety of states and nonstate actors continue to view international terrorism as a legitimate foreign policy tool, which we consider reprehensible.\"",
"While Nuland said the United States is \"not going to prejudge this,\" she added, \"We're just concerned that these come on the heels of other incidences that clearly had links back to Iran.\"",
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday blamed the Georgia and India incidents on Iran, calling it \"the biggest exporter of terror in the world.\"",
"\"The Israeli government and her security organizations are continuing to operate together with local security services against these acts of terror,\" Netanyahu said.",
"\"We will continue to act in a strong way, systematically and steadfastly.\"",
"In an interview Tuesday with CNN's Piers Morgan, Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom said Iran has been trying to target Israeli and Jewish sites for \"a few decades now.\"",
"\"We knew that they are planning it, preparing it.",
"We're in touch with local governments with a few countries in Asia and in other places and together we -- we're trying to prevent those attacks for a very long time,\" Shalom said.",
"\"Unfortunately, they succeeded to do it in India and tried to do it in Georgia and Azerbaijan a few weeks ago.",
"That's something Iran is responsible for.\"",
"Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast blamed Israel, accusing it of having bombed its own embassies in New Delhi and Tbilisi \"to tarnish Iran's friendly ties with the host countries,\" Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency said.",
"\"He brushed aside Israeli accusation on Iranian involvement in the bombing and said that Israel perpetrated the terrorist actions to launch psychological warfare against Iran,\" IRNA reported.",
"\"Iran condemns terrorism in strongest term and Iran has been the victim of terrorism,\" Mehmanparast said.",
"Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said this month that Iran would support any nation or group that stands up against Israel.",
"He said Iran doesn't interfere in other nations but has aided such militant groups as Hamas and Hezbollah in conflicts with Israel in Gaza and Lebanon.",
"The modus operandi is not new.",
"Last month, a mysterious explosion in Iran killed a man identified as a nuclear scientist -- the third such killing in the past two years in which someone placed a bomb on or under a scientist's car.",
"A fourth survived an assassination attempt.",
"The United States and Israel oppose Iran's nuclear program, although numerous countries have expressed concern as well.",
"Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful, civilian energy purposes.",
"Iranian officials, on state-run media, blame Israel and the United States for the killings of the scientists.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has denied \"any United States involvement in any kind of act of violence inside Iran.\"",
"While Israel generally refuses to comment on accusations and speculation, Brig.",
"Gen. Yoav Mordechai, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said on his Facebook page, \"I have no idea who targeted the Iranian scientist but I certainly don't shed a tear.\"",
"CNN's Kevin Flower reported from Jerusalem, Kocha Olarn reported from Bangkok, Elise Labott reported from Washington and Joe Sterling reported from Atlanta ."
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"(CNN) -- South Korea's Ji Dong-Won grabbed a dramatic injury-time winner as Sunderland stunned English Premier League leaders Manchester City 1-0 at the Stadium of Light Sunday.",
"The upset result left City ahead of champions Manchester United on goal difference, having gone into the match hoping to open up a three-point lead after their neighbors were beaten 3-2 by Blackburn 24 hours earlier.",
"Instead, Roberto Mancini's men were left to reflect on a wasted opportunity with cavalier defending in the dying moments costing them even a point.",
"Sunderland, who had been penned in their area for much of the final few minutes, broke upfield and had a two-man advantage as Stephane Sessegnon played in Ji.",
"Ferguson's birthday celebrations ruined .",
"On as a substitute for Niklas Bendtner, he beat England goalkeeper Joe Hart with a composed finish.",
"Moments before City substitute Micah Richards had thumped the crossbar after Simon Mignolet parried a David Silva shot.",
"Edin Dzeko hit the woodwork in the first half as the leaders dominated possession, but the home side also had clear-cut chances.",
"Bendtner wasted his before the break and Sessegnon screwed his effort wide in the second half.",
"The three points lifted Sunderland, who have been revived under new manager Martin O'Neill, to 13th place, six points clear of the drop zone.",
"City must now entertain Liverpool on Tuesday night as they look to get their title challenge back on firmer footing.",
"Mancini bemoaned his side's luck after the surprise defeat.",
"\"We deserved to win this game,\" he told Sky Sports.",
"\"It's incredible. \"This is football. I don't know how many chances we had,\" the Italian added.",
"\"We missed a big opportunity today because we had a chance to go three points on Manchester United.\"",
"It completed a weekend of upsets with none of the top five, bar Arsenal, winning.",
"Tottenham stayed in third, six points behind the Manchester pair with a game in hand, after being held at Swansea.",
"In Sunday's other game, Nigerian international Victor Anichebe came off the bench to score the only goal of the game in Everton's 1-0 win away to West Bromwich Albion."
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"(CNN) -- Gov. Mitt Romney got himself into a bit of a pickle Monday when he was quoted saying that he liked to \"fire people.\"",
"Many have jumped onto this line as evidence of the candidate's callousness toward working people in a bad economy.",
"Even his Republican primary competitors latched onto the comment, especially as it might relate to his work at Bain Capital Ventures, to show that Romney is in the business of making people unemployed.",
"There's much more smoke here than fire, but some of it, unfortunately, is Romney's fault.",
"He was the one, after all, who tried to pitch his time at Bain as evidence of his success as a \"job creator.\"",
"Specifically, in the GOP candidates' debate on Saturday he said, \"In the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.\"",
"Turns out this isn't entirely correct.",
"When pressed, his campaign released figures that showed that a number of companies helped by Bain under Romney's tenure, such as Staples, the Sports Authority, and Domino's, have added more than 100,000 jobs since then.",
"But there are two problems with that figure.",
"The first is that it's the number of jobs in all the time since Romney started at Bain, including many years after he left.",
"The second is that there are no figures that show how many jobs were added or lost at other companies Bain managed, so a claim of a \"net\" addition is unproven.",
"Bain could release comprehensive figures, but it's not likely it will.",
"Nor should it. Bain isn't running for office, and I'm sure it considers the information proprietary.",
"The larger issue, though, is that many people were fired through Bain's work.",
"That is what often happens when venture firms take over businesses through leveraged buyouts.",
"These stories make for compelling campaign commercials and news pieces.",
"They don't paint Romney in as nice a light.",
"That's compounded when he claims to \"enjoy\" firing people.",
"But let's be fair. The governor is having his words taken out of context.",
"Here's the full quote: .",
"\"I want individuals to have their own insurance.",
"That means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep people healthy.",
"It also means if you don't like what they do, you can fire them.",
"I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.",
"If someone doesn't give me the good service I need, I'm going to go get somebody else to provide that service to me.\"",
"Romney isn't talking about his time at Bain.",
"He's talking about health insurance.",
"Specifically, he's talking about how he'd like insurance to work.",
"He would rather everyone be personally responsible for buying insurance, instead of getting it from the government.",
"Then, he says, if the insurance company did a bad job, people could fire them.",
"That sounds much better, right?",
"Unfortunately, it's not. The first problem is that Romney ascribes motives to the insurance companies that make no sense.",
"If you would just leave the insurance company if it did a bad job, then there is no incentive for it to keep you healthy.",
"Healthy people are cheap for insurance companies, and sick people are not.",
"If you go from being healthy to being sick, it's in an insurance company's best interest that you leave.",
"That's an economic fact, not a moral judgment.",
"It's only if you can't leave, if you have to remain on their books no matter what, that the company has an incentive to keep you healthy.",
"The second problem is worse, though.",
"Healthy people often don't know their insurance plans are bad until they get sick.",
"Healthy people, after all, don't make as much use of their plans.",
"Once they fall ill, though, it means now they have a pre-existing condition, which will make it almost impossible to them to get a new plan if they decide to fire their old insurance company.",
"The way the private insurance market works today, almost no one has the luxury of firing the insurance company once he or she figures out it isn't doing a good job.",
"That's not true in Massachusetts, of course.",
"Thanks to Romney's legislation there, insurance companies can't deny you coverage and also can't charge you more for being sick.",
"There, thanks to Romney, you can fire your insurance company and be assured of finding a better one.",
"It will also be true for many more people once President Obama's Affordable Care Act gets fully under way in 2014.",
"Since Romney seems so enamored of firing bad insurance companies, you might think he'd want to protect and promote other people's ability to do so.",
"Instead, he opposes the Affordable Care Act, which would do the same thing nationally that his law did for the people of Massachusetts.",
"Join CNN Opinion on Facebook and follow updates on Twitter.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Aaron Carroll."
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"Aaron Carroll: Romney comment on firing people is mostly out of context; smoke, not fire .",
"But it calls attention to his questionable record as \"job creator\" at Bain, he says .",
"His quote involved firing health insurers; but sick people don't have luxury of doing that .",
"Carroll: In Massachusetts they can, under Romney health law; yet he opposes national reform ."
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"London (CNN) -- Heavy snow in recent weeks has already wreaked havoc across Europe -- now it is damaging some of the continent's most recognized historic monuments.",
"The Colosseum in Rome has been forced to shut after small pieces of its walls crumbled away as a result of freezing temperatures.",
"And buildings in the historic walled town of Urbino -- a UNESCO World Heritage Site -- are reported to be at risk of collapse under the weight of snow, following unprecedented blizzards in the area.",
"In the Italian capital, thousands of tourists have been disappointed to discover the Colosseum, one of the city's most popular attractions, is closed to visitors, while checks are carried out to determine the extent of the damage and to help prevent further movement.",
"Rossella Rea, archaeologist and superintendent of the Colosseum, told CNN: \"Tests and evaluation of the damage is still ongoing, especially on the second level of arches.\"",
"Rea said the enforced closure of the site would have a serious financial impact -- the Colosseum attracts some 7,000 visitors a day, paying 12 euros for a ticket -- but that it was necessary in the circumstances.",
"\"At the weekend, some of the tourists didn't understand why the Colosseum was closed -- for people from northern countries, the snow is not a problem.",
"\"But it's very unusual for us and it caused the detachment of dust, concrete and bricks.",
"Little quantities but if they fall from a certain height they can be dangerous.\"",
"Cristiano Brughitta, spokesman for Italy's Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, said the damage was caused by ice forming on the walls of the monument.",
"\"When the temperatures drop below zero, and there is rain and snow, it causes ice to form which, with the increase in volume, pushes the external plaster masonry and causes small pieces to fall off,\" he said.",
"David Pickles, senior architect at English Heritage, told CNN such damage was an extreme version of the natural wear and tear buildings face during everyday weather.",
"\"There's a whole freeze/thaw cycle of damage to buildings where moisture gets into the stonework, into the pores of the stone, it then freezes and expands very significantly, it then breaks up the stone and then when it thaws, bits of stone will start falling off.",
"\"That's happening all the time, of course, that's one of the major decay mechanisms in historic buildings anyway, because they're largely water permeable... You can't treat stone to stop it happening.\"",
"In Urbino, in the Marche region of Italy, partial collapses have been reported at the convents of San Francesco and San Bernardino, while the roof of the Church of the Capuchins outside the town center has reportedly caved in.",
"The town's Duomo (cathedral) is also shut, because of water damage.",
"Checks are being carried out on vulnerable buildings in the area.",
"\"Our biggest worry is the buildings in the historic center, which have wooden joists and delicate roofs,\" said Gabriele Cavalera, a spokesperson for the local council.",
"According to Cavalera, residents of some private homes in the historic center are adding extra support to the old roof beams in an attempt to prevent any further cave-ins.",
"\"It's an enormous quantity of snow compared with what we normally get in winter and it's had a heavy impact, the equivalent of a flood,\" said Cavalera.",
"Brughitta agreed that conditions were exceptional: \"Maybe every 30 years it gets this cold, but it's very rare.\"",
"A number of Italy's historic monuments, including the Colosseum and Pompeii, have suffered in recent years from damage and collapse.",
"The Colosseum, which is scheduled to reopen to the public Thursday, is due to undergo restoration works later this year with sponsorship from luxury brand Tod's.",
"In case of similar snowfalls in the future, Brughitta in Rome suggests using a type of cold-weather \"blanket\" for exposed monuments such as the nearly 2,000-year-old Colosseum.",
"Though Pickles said such plans may be difficult, on a practical level: \"For a building like the Colosseum, I should think it would cost a fortune to cover it, because we're talking about a huge wall area.\"",
"And while delicate, these buildings are nonetheless tenacious when it comes to adverse weather and acts of god.",
"After all, said Cavalera, The Ducal Palace in Urbino, which is around 500 years old and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, managed to resist collapse during the earthquakes of the 1990s and is so far holding out against the snow.",
"Livia Borghese in Rome contributed to this report."
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"Snow has caused damage to the Colosseum in Rome and to historic buildings in Urbino .",
"Plunging temperatures caused ice to form on Colosseum walls, forcing off small pieces of rock .",
"Delicate houses in Urbino's historic walled center have suffered collapses .",
"Worst snowfall in Italy for many years; said to be equivalent of a severe flood ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- He was known only as A.J.A.-- a little boy at the center of a international custody fight that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.",
"The near decade-long dispute has now come to an end, not because of any judicial action, but simply because of time.",
"Alex Abbott turned 16 recently and has officially \"aged out\" of coverage under The Hague Convention dealing with child abduction across borders.",
"A U.S. federal judge this week signed an order dismissing the case between the boy's parents.",
"Mother and son now live in Texas.",
"She says the youngster seeks no further contact with his father.",
"Jacquelyn Vaye Abbott said she was shocked when she heard the news Monday, never quite sure her case would ever be resolved.",
"\"Alex is safe and his own country, that's the most important thing,\" she told CNN from her office in Austin.",
"\"We're whole, we're here, we're safe.",
"Everything else is inconsequential.\"",
"The Supreme Court in 2010 ruled the British father could continue his federal appeals in his effort to regain custody of his son, who was taken by his mother from Chile to Texas despite a Chilean court's decree prohibiting either parent from taking the child out of the country without consent from the other.",
"The judicial appeal tested the power of federal courts to intervene when fights over children go global, and tackled the issue of the scope of international treaty, and whether one country's court order preventing a child from being taken overseas by a parent represented a \"right of custody\" enforceable in the United States.",
"The justices, by a 6-3 vote, said Timothy Abbott had such a right of custody and could force the boy's return to Chile, even though courts in that South American nation had said that despite the earlier decree, the father enjoyed only limited power as a non-custodial parent.",
"The case was tossed back to the lower federal courts.",
"During one recent hearing, the boy told a federal judge why he did not want to live with or see his father.",
"There was no immediate reaction from Timothy Abbott's Washington attorney to the judge's final order of dismissal.",
"This custody fight involved a broad mix of nations and nationalities.",
"The father is a British citizen and his estranged wife is an American.",
"They married in England and their son, born in Hawaii in 1995, is a U.S. citizen.",
"The family subsequently moved to Chile, and the couple separated in March 2003.",
"The mother was later awarded custody of the boy, while the father was granted visitation rights.",
"It was at that point that the Chilean courts issued a decree prohibiting either party from removing the child from the country without mutual consent.",
"But Jacquelyn Abbott did just that, taking the then-10-year-old boy amid a fight over visitation by the father.",
"She claimed that due to visa restrictions in Chile, she could not find work or rent an apartment.",
"Timothy Abbott then hired a private investigator who eventually located the child in San Antonio, Texas.",
"Abbott next went to federal court, asking that his son -- known in court papers as \"A.J.A.\"",
"-- be returned to Chile under provisions enforceable by international law.",
"The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction grants parents in general a \"right of custody\" and a separate \"right of access,\" ensuring the laws of one country are respected in the others.",
"More than 80 countries are a party to the treaty, including the United States and Chile.",
"A federal appeals court in New Orleans concluded the father had only visitation rights, not formal \"custody, care and control.\"",
"It said he could not claim a \"right of custody\" under The Hague Convention.",
"The judges noted, however, that he had a \"right of access,\" allowing him to see the child in the United States.",
"But the U.S. Supreme Court later voided that ruling.",
"\"To interpret the convention to permit an abducting parent to avoid a return remedy, even when the other parent holds a ne exeat (custodial) right, would run counter to the convention's purpose of deterring child abductions by parents who attempt to find a friendlier forum for deciding custodial disputes,\" Justice Anthony Kennedy said.",
"In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said the father's rights were necessarily limited, and he lacked the ultimate power to say where the boy should live.",
"Under the justice's reading of the convention, the father had authority only \"to seek assistance from this country in carrying out the Chilean family court's visitation order.\"",
"But the now-retired Stevens accurately predicted the Abbott child could, under Texas law, eventually have a vital role in deciding where he would live.",
"\"So no matter what we do, the child may actually provide the answer to this case,\" he said when the case was argued two years ago.",
"The Abbott case has been cited in other similar custody disputes involving the United States, Italy, and Mexico.",
"Jacquelyn Abbott expressed frustration that her estranged husband used an international treaty and the federal courts to try to thwart earlier Chilean court decisions.",
"\"My husband had threatened that he would do anything to leave me with nothing, including my child, despite the fact the (Chilean) courts had granted me full custody.",
"So he tried to drag this out for as long as he could.",
"And my son has been waiting for years for strangers to decide his future.",
"The (Hague) treaty leaves too much room for abuse by a vengeful parent.\"",
"Jacquelyn Abbott has tried without success to get a divorce from her husband, who has long objected.",
"She said her son has adjusted surprisingly well to all the personal turmoil in his young life.",
"\"He's very relieved when I told him last night about the court order,\" she said.",
"\"He just smiled and said, 'That's very good news, indeed.'\"",
"The Supreme Court case was Abbott v. Abbott (08-645)."
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"A case involving an international treaty and parental custody rights is closed .",
"Courts in Chile and the United States had issued different rulings in the case .",
"The question is left unresolved when the boy at the center of the case turns 16 ."
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"(EW.com) -- \"The Artist\" and \"Hugo\" continued their domination of the early awards season, each racking up 11 Critics' Choice nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, perhaps the only critics group that presages the Academy Award nominations with any accuracy.",
"\"Drive\" and \"The Help\" each scored eight nods, while \"The Descendants\" and \"War Horse\" received seven.",
"Also in the BFCA's Best Picture top 10: \"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,\" \"Midnight in Paris,\" \"Moneyball,\" and \"The Tree of Life.\"",
"(Not included, meanwhile: \"Bridesmaids,\" \"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,\" \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2,\" \"The Ides of March,\" and \"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.\")",
"Amongst the surprises in the acting categories: \"Drive's\" Ryan Gosling over \"Tinker Tailor's\" Gary Oldman, \"Martha Marcy May Marlene's\" Elizabeth Olsen over \"Albert Nobbs'\" Glenn Close, and three previously dark-horse Best Supporting Actor candidates: \"Young Adult's\" Patton Oswalt, \"Warrior's\" Nick Nolte, and \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes'\" Andy Serkis.",
"And interestingly, although the BFCA did nominate Noomi Rapace last year for Best Actress for the Swedish version of \"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,\" Rooney Mara was overlooked for her performance in David Fincher's remake.",
"Here's the entire list of nominees: .",
"Best Picture .",
"The Artist . The Descendants . Drive . Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close .",
"The Help . Hugo . Midnight in Paris .",
"Moneyball . The Tree of Life . War Horse . Best Actor .",
"George Clooney -- \"The Descendants\" Leonardo DiCaprio -- \"J. Edgar\" Jean Dujardin -- \"The Artist\" Michael Fassbender -- \"Shame\" Ryan Gosling -- \"Drive\" Brad Pitt -- \"Moneyball\" Best Actress .",
"Viola Davis -- \"The Help\" Elizabeth Olsen -- \"Martha Marcy May Marlene\" Meryl Streep -- \"The Iron Lady\" Tilda Swinton -- \"We Need to Talk About Kevin\" Charlize Theron -- \"Young Adult\" Michelle Williams -- \"My Week With Marilyn\" Best Supporting Actor .",
"Kenneth Branagh -- \"My Week With Marilyn\" Albert Brooks -- \"Drive\" Nick Nolte -- \"Warrior\" Patton Oswalt -- \"Young Adult\" Christopher Plummer -- \"Beginners\" Andy Serkis -- \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\" Best Supporting Actress .",
"Bérénice Bejo -- \"The Artist\" Jessica Chastain -- \"The Help\" Melissa McCarthy -- \"Bridesmaids\" Carey Mulligan -- \"Shame\" Octavia Spencer -- \"The Help\" Shailene Woodley -- \"The Descendants\" Best Young Actor/ Actress .",
"Asa Butterfield -- \"Hugo\" Elle Fanning -- \"Super 8\" Thomas Horn -- \"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close\" Ezra Miller -- \"We Need to Talk About Kevin\" Saoirse Ronan -- \"Hanna\" Shailene Woodley -- \"The Descendants\" Best Acting Ensemble .",
"The Artist . Bridesmaids . The Descendants . The Help . The Ides of March .",
"Best Director .",
"Stephen Daldry -- \"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close\" Michel Hazanavicius -- \"The Artist\" Alexander Payne -- \"The Descendants\" Nicolas Winding Refn -- \"Drive\" Martin Scorsese -- \"Hugo\" Steven Spielberg -- \"War Horse\" Best Original Screenplay .",
"\"The Artist\" -- Michel Hazanavicius .",
"\"50/50\" -- Will Reiser .",
"\"Midnight in Paris\" -- Woody Allen .",
"\"Win Win\" -- Screenplay by Tom McCarthy, Story by Tom McCarthy & Joe Tiboni .",
"\"Young Adult\" -- Diablo Cody .",
"Best Adapted Screenplay .",
"\"The Descendants\" -- Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash .",
"\"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close\" -- Eric Roth .",
"\"The Help\" -- Tate Taylor .",
"\"Hugo\" -- John Logan .",
"\"Moneyball\" -- Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, Story by Stan Chervin .",
"Best Cinematography .",
"\"The Artist\" -- Guillaume Schiffman .",
"\"Drive\" -- Newton Thomas Sigel .",
"\"Hugo\" -- Robert Richardson .",
"\"The Tree of Life\" -- Emmanuel Lubezki .",
"\"War Horse\" -- Janusz Kaminski .",
"Best Art Direction .",
"\"The Artist\" -- Production Designer: Laurence Bennett, Art Director: Gregory S. Hooper .",
"\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2\" -- Production Designer: Stuart Craig, Set Decorator: Stephenie McMillan .",
"\"Hugo\" -- Production Designer: Dante Ferretti, Set Decorator: Francesca Lo Schiavo .",
"\"The Tree of Life\" -- Production Designer: Jack Fisk, Art Director: David Crank .",
"\"War Horse\" -- Production Designer: Rick Carter, Set Decorator: Lee Sandales .",
"Best Editing .",
"\"The Artist\" -- Michel Hazanavicius and Anne-Sophie Bion .",
"\"Drive\" -- Matthew Newman .",
"\"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo\" -- Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall .",
"\"Hugo\" -- Thelma Schoonmaker .",
"\"War Horse\" -- Michael Kahn .",
"Best Costume Design .",
"\"The Artist\" -- Mark Bridges .",
"\"The Help\" -- Sharen Davis .",
"\"Hugo\" -- Sandy Powell .",
"\"Jane Eyre\" -- Michael O'Connor .",
"\"My Week With Marilyn\" -- Jill Taylor .",
"Best Makeup .",
"Albert Nobbs .",
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 .",
"The Iron Lady . J. Edgar . My Week With Marilyn .",
"BEST VISUAL EFFECTS .",
"Hugo . Rise of the Planet of the Apes .",
"Super 8 . The Tree of Life . Best Sound .",
"Hugo . Super 8 . The Tree of Life . War Horse . Best Animated Feature .",
"The Adventures of Tintin .",
"Arthur Christmas .",
"Kung Fu Panda 2 .",
"Puss in Boots .",
"Rango . Best Action Movie .",
"Drive . Fast Five . Hanna . Rise of the Planet of the Apes .",
"Super 8 . Best Comedy .",
"Bridesmaids . Crazy, Stupid, Love .",
"Horrible Bosses .",
"Midnight in Paris .",
"The Muppets . Best Foreign Language FiIm .",
"Darkness . Le Havre . A Separation . The Skin I Live In . Where Do We Go Now? Best Documentary Feature .",
"Buck . Cave of Forgotten Dreams .",
"George Harrison: Living in the Material World .",
"Page One: Inside the New York Times .",
"Project Nim .",
"Undefeated . Best Song . \"Hello Hello\" -- performed by Elton John and Lady Gaga/written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin -- Gnomeo & Juliet .",
"\"Life's a Happy Song\" -- performed by Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Walter/written by Bret McKenzie -- The Muppets .",
"\"The Living Proof\" -- performed by Mary J. Blige/written by Mary J. Blige, Thomas Newman and Harvey Mason, Jr. -- The Help .",
"\"Man or Muppet\" -- performed by Jason Segel and Walter/written by Bret McKenzie -- The Muppets .",
"\"Pictures in My Head\" -- performed by Kermit and the Muppets/written by Jeannie Lurie, Aris Archontis and Chen Neeman -- The Muppets .",
"Best Score .",
"\"The Artist\" -- Ludovic Bource .",
"\"Drive\" -- Cliff Martinez .",
"\"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo\" -- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross .",
"\"Hugo\" -- Howard Shore .",
"\"War Horse\" -- John Williams .",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Amongst the surprises in the acting categories: \"Drive's\" Ryan Gosling over \"Tinker Tailor's\" Gary Oldman .",
"\"Drive\" and \"The Help\" each scored eight nods .",
"\"The Descendants\" and \"War Horse\" received seven ."
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"(CNN) -- English football club Liverpool apologized Sunday after an opposing team's player complained of being abused by supporters.",
"Oldham's on-loan defender Tom Adeyemi was visibly upset after an incident during Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at Liverpool's Anfield ground.",
"A statement on the club's website read: \"Whatever the outcome of what is now a police investigation, all of us are deeply sorry for what happened on Friday night and players and our club pass on our sincere regrets to Tom Adeyemi for the upset and distress he suffered as a result of the matter at hand.\"",
"Merseyside police arrested a 20-year-old man from Aintree on \"suspicion of a racially-aggravated public order offense\" and he was bailed Sunday.",
"Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was last month banned for eight matches for racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra, and his club made a big show of publicly defending the Uruguay international before finally accepting the punishment earlier this week.",
"Chelsea and England captain John Terry has been charged by police for allegedly racially abusing Queens Park Rangers player Anton Ferdinand, and will face a court case in February.",
"Before the arrest on Saturday, former Oldham player Reuben Hazell claimed on social networking website Twitter that it was a matter of racial abuse.",
"\"After the game I went into the Oldham dressing room to catch up with my old mates and spoke to Tom Adeyemi directly about what the altercation with the fan was all about.",
"He said he was racially abused by the fan.",
"This is FACT,\" wrote Hazell, who now plays for Shrewsbury in the fourth division, one below that which Oldham competes in.",
"Adeyemi, who has Nigerian ancestry, is on the books of his hometown team Norwich but the 20-year-old has yet to establish himself at the Premier League side.",
"His loan at Oldham is due to expire this month, and he spent last season with fourth division Bradford.",
"Oldham captain Dean Furman said Adeyemi's treatment during the 5-1 defeat at Liverpool was unacceptable.",
"\"He was abused and I'll leave it to Tom and the police to investigate that,\" Furman told BBC Radio Manchester.",
"\"What happened should not happen in the game.",
"It has been highlighted over the last few months and it is an absolute disgrace. \"",
"In a separate development, a 21-year-old man was charged Saturday with racially abusing former Premier League star Stan Collymore on Twitter.",
"Collymore, 40, played for a number of top clubs, including Liverpool and now works as a broadcaster and football pundit.",
"He also campaigns publicly against racism.",
"Northumbria Police said Joshua Cryer, of Jesmond, Newcastle, was charged with \"a Section Five racial public order offense and a Section Five public order offense.\"",
"He was bailed to appear before magistrates on Monday January 23."
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"Liverpool apologize to opposing player abused in FA Cup tie .",
"Man arrested following incident at Anfield bailed by Merseyside police .",
"Liverpool Friday accepted Luis Suarez's punishment for racially abusing an opponent .",
"Man charged with racially-abusing Stan Collymore on Twitter ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Linsanity\" reached fever pitch late Tuesday after the NBA's man of the moment, Jeremy Lin, secured a dramatic last-gasp win for the New York Knicks.",
"With barely a second to play, Lin showed nerves of steel in hitting a three-pointer to take the spoils.",
"NBA.com: Watch the game winning shot .",
"The Harvard-educated star has taken the world of basketball by storm in recent weeks, going from one-time bench-warmer to team savior.",
"His personal haul of 27 points and 11 assists gave the Knicks their sixth-straight win as they beat the Toronto Raptors 90-87 in Canada.",
"The visitors had trailed by 14 points at one point in the 4th quarter.",
"How the match played out .",
"The point guard also surpassed Shaquille O'Neal's league record for the most points in his first five games as a starter, with 136 points, compared to O'Neal's 129.",
"He also got the better of Kobe Bryant -- arguably the NBA's top player -- last Friday, scoring 38 points in the Knicks' win over the Los Angeles Lakers.",
"Jeremy Lin: The NBA's breath of fresh air .",
"But his last-second heroics in Toronto will live long in the memory of New York fans.",
"\"I just wanted to make sure I got a good shot at the end of the clock,\" Lin said after the game, in quotes carried by Agence France-Presse.",
"\"We had so many active hands.",
"Everybody with deflections, rebounds and we clamped it down.",
"\"I'm thankful that my coach and teammates trust me with the ball at the end of the game.",
"I like having it at the end of the game.\"",
"Toronto's Jose Calderon finished with 25 points, nine assists, and seven rebounds, while Lin's teammate Amare Stoudemire claimed 21points and nine rebounds on his return to the team after a short absence for personal reasons.",
"The Lin-inspired Knicks are next up against the Sacramento Kings in New York later Wednesday."
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"Jeremy Lin's personal haul of 27 points and 11 assists gave the Knicks their sixth-straight win .",
"Lin surpassed Shaquille O'Neal's league record for the most points in his first five starts .",
"Toronto's Jose Calderon finished with 25 points, nine assists, and seven rebounds ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The federal government recovered almost $4.1 billion stolen in health care fraud schemes during fiscal year 2011, Obama administration officials announced Tuesday.",
"The figure is up 58 percent from 2009.",
"\"This is an unprecedented achievement -- and it represents the highest amount ever recovered in a single year,\" said Attorney General Eric Holder.",
"The Justice Department reported more than 1,400 people were charged with fraud in 500 cases.",
"There have been more than 700 convictions.",
"\"We're regaining the upper hand in our fight against health care fraud,\" said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.",
"The numbers are contained in the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report, which is sent to Congress.",
"Holder and Sebelius credited their Medicare Fraud Strike Force teams for tracking down crime in areas with \"hot spots\" of unexplained Medicare billing.",
"The strike forces include prosecutors and investigators from the FBI, the Justice Department and the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.",
"In fiscal year 2011, new teams were created in Dallas and Chicago.",
"They joined seven existing groups in Miami; Los Angeles; Detroit; Houston; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Tampa, Florida; and the Brooklyn borough of New York.",
"Holder said recently strike forces have handled two large, multiple-city fraud takedowns.",
"In one case, 115 people were arrested in nine cities for alleged false billing schemes amounting to more than $240 million.",
"A second case involved $290 million in allegedly fraudulent bills in which 91 defendants were charged in eight cities.",
"Health care fraud has attracted both organized crime organizations and street gangs, according to Kevin Perkins, the FBI's assistant director for the Criminal Investigative Division.",
"Perkins said that through computer analysis the FBI can look at many thousands of Explanation of Benefit forms and detect hot spots showing excessive Medicare billing, which law enforcement can then pursue.",
"\"We're making an impact,\" Perkins said.",
"Officials say fraudulent schemes include illegal marketing of medical devices and pharmaceuticals for purposes not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Medicare fraud by hospitals and other institutional providers, illegal pricing by makers of drugs, and violations of laws against self-referrals and kickbacks.",
"Sebelius said aggressively pursuing health care fraud is a great investment.",
"\"Over the last three years, for every dollar we've spent, we've put more than seven dollars back in the hands of American taxpayers,\" she said.",
"The money goes into the Medicare Trust Fund, the U.S. Treasury and state treasuries.",
"Officials said the Affordable Care Act helps in the fight against fraud in various ways, including providing $350 million in resources, increasing data sharing, and expanding efforts to get money back after overpayments."
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"The recovery of nearly $4.1 billion is called \"an unprecedented achievement\"\nFederal officials credit Medicare Fraud Strike Force teams .",
"Both organized crime and street gangs are involved in health fraud, an official says ."
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"Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck early Wednesday off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, but witnesses reported only minor shaking on land.",
"The quake was centered in the northern Indian Ocean, more than 400 km (250 miles) off northern Sumatra and more than 29 km (18 miles) beneath the surface.",
"Indonesian authorities initially issued a tsunami warning for the area, before lifting it a couple of hours after the first quake struck.",
"The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat of a massive wave like the one that devastated the region in 2004.",
"The quake hit at 12:37 a.m. Wednesday (1:37 p.m. Tuesday ET), according to the USGS.",
"There were no immediate reports of damage, and hotel clerks contacted by CNN reported only mild shaking.",
"One front desk clerk in Aceh said a few hotel guests went outside when the quake hit, but most weren't awakened.",
"The region is highly active seismically, and a magnitude 9.1 quake in December 2004 generated a tsunami that killed people as far away as eastern Africa.",
"The death toll from the combined disaster topped 280,000 in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia.",
"CNN's Kathy Quiano contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Indonesian authorities lift tsunami warning .",
"Witnesses report only minor shaking on land .",
"The magnitude 7.3 quake was centered more than 250 miles off Sumatra ."
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"(CNN) -- From the tsunami in Japan to famine in East Africa to the deadly tornado outbreaks in the United States, 2011 has been a historic year for natural disasters.",
"A dozen weather-related disasters in the United States alone have caused more than $1 billion in damages each, breaking the record of nine billion-dollar disasters set in 2008, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.",
"Altogether, the damage from these events exceeds $50 billion.",
"\"In many ways, 2011 rewrote the record books.",
"From crippling snowstorms to the second deadliest tornado year on record to epic floods, drought and heat, and the third busiest hurricane season on record, we've witnessed the extreme of nearly every weather category,\" said NOAA spokesman Christopher Vaccaro.",
"Dynamic 2011 events to shape world for years to come .",
"Relief organizations have been working year-round to provide emergency aid when disaster strikes and long-term assistance in the months and years that follow.",
"Oftentimes, help is needed long after the media attention subsides.",
"\"Recovery is a very long process.",
"People are so grateful for that temporary place to stay, that hot meal,\" said Jeff Jellets, territorial disaster coordinator for The Salvation Army.",
"\"But we really look at how we can restore families back to their predisaster condition.",
"\"Until those communities are rebuilt, the job just isn't done.\"",
"This year, there have been more than 1,000 weather-related fatalities in the United States, according to NOAA.",
"Many of those occurred when deadly tornadoes ripped through the Southeast and Midwest this spring and summer.",
"Vote for the top stories of 2011 .",
"In late April, an estimated 343 tornadoes ripped through central and Southern states, killing 321 people, 240 of which were in Alabama.",
"Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was particularly devastated.",
"Then, less than a month later, 160 people were killed when a tornado with 200 mph winds struck Joplin, Missouri, making it the deadliest single tornado to strike the United States since modern tornado record-keeping began.",
"Months later, many of these communities are still in need.",
"\"People are starting the process of rebuilding, so we're helping them with things like appliances and rebuilding materials so they can get back in their homes,\" Jellets said.",
"\"But then there are a number of people in places like Hackleburg, Alabama, which was really significantly damaged by a tornado, where people are still in the emergency assistance phase.\"",
"In August, Hurricane Irene made landfall over coastal North Carolina and headed north, killing 45 people and causing torrential rainfall and flooding across the Northeast.",
"\"The real damage was inland flooding, particularly in places like upstate New York and Vermont.",
"The Salvation Army still has distribution centers where we're handing out cleaning supplies and food boxes,\" Jellets said.",
"\"But some of those communities were away from the media spotlight.",
"What we can do is going to be very difficult over the long haul unless more donations come in for those events.\"",
"The American Red Cross has responded to 131 disaster relief operations in 44 separate states so far this year.",
"\"We opened more than 1,000 shelters across the nation for disasters such as Hurricane Irene and the tornadoes,\" said Laura Howe, American Red Cross spokesperson.",
"\"That's in comparison to 37 shelters that we opened across the nation in 2010.\"",
"Outside the United States, there have been several major disasters, including the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the ensuing nuclear catastrophe, famine in East Africa and flooding in Thailand.",
"The American Red Cross and other U.S.-based aid organizations joined international efforts to help Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami killed 15,840 people, according to the most recent death toll, and set off a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.",
"\"A lot of the donations the American Red Cross has provided are supporting the rebuilding of hospitals and medical centers and providing social welfare programs for elderly and children,\" Howe said.",
"\"Any time you have a large disaster, the recovery process is going to take a number of years.\"",
"The Salvation Army is helping Japanese fishermen get back to work.",
"\"Just recently we provided funding to help many of the fishermen there get their boats and their wares back together so they can get back to the business that they know, which is commercial fishing,\" said Salvation Army spokesman Maj. George Hood.",
"In the Horn of Africa, some regions are slowly recovering five months after the United Nations declared a famine in much of Somalia.",
"The disaster has killed tens of thousands of people and 250,000 are still at risk of starvation.",
"The World Food Programme is aiming to feed 11 million people in East Africa.",
"The organization is currently reaching almost 8 million.",
"\"It's crucially important that especially the children and nursing mothers get highly fortified supplementary foods.",
"For $10 you can feed a woman or a child for three weeks,\" said WFP spokeswoman Bettina Luescher.",
"\"Hunger is the biggest solvable global problem we have.",
"For very little, you really can help change a life.\"",
"Ways to help . As relief organizations continue to provide aid to victims around the world, here are a few ways you can help.",
"To donate to the American Red Cross, go online or text \"REDCROSS\" to 90999 in the midst of a disaster or to make a donation to the general disaster relief fund.",
"During the holiday season, browse the Holiday Giving Catalog to buy a gift in someone's honor like five blankets for disaster victims at home or emergency water containers for people in other countries.",
"You can also visit the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' website to donate to a national society in a specific country.",
"To donate to The Salvation Army, go online, text \"GIVE\" to 80888, or drop some spare change in one of the red kettles you see around town during the holidays.",
"When you donate online or through the mail, you can designate your gift to a specific disaster.",
"To help feed people in the Horn of Africa, donations can be made to the World Food Programme from various countries online or via text.",
"To donate $10 from the United States, text \"AID\" to 27722; to donate $5 from Canada, text \"RELIEF\" to 45678; to donate £3 from the United Kingdom text \"AID\" to 70303.",
"Or you can test your knowledge by taking the Horn of Africa quiz.",
"For every person who participates, a child will receive a warm meal thanks to an anonymous donor."
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"12 billion-dollar weather related disasters have been recorded in the U.S.",
"The total cost of these events exceeds $50 billion .",
"Relief organizations are providing long-term aid for victims .",
"If you want to help, donations can be as simple as sending a text ."
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"(CNN) -- A month ago, Google's three-year effort to push its Web browser, Chrome, took a major step when analysts said it had passed Mozilla's Firefox to become the second-most popular tool of its kind on the Internet.",
"Today, that climb continues and has some tech observers wondering whether Chrome could do the unthinkable and topple perennial leader Internet Explorer from atop the browser rankings.",
"According to Web analytics firm StatCounter, the most popular version of Google's browser, Chrome 15, edged out Internet Explorer 8 in early December to become the world's most used edition of a browser.",
"(For those keeping score, the totals were 23.6% of worldwide browser usage compared to IE8's 23.5%.)",
"When all versions are considered, Chrome accounted for more than 27% of all worldwide browser use at the beginning of December, an increase of about 1.5% over the previous month.",
"That's compared to about 37% for Internet Explorer, which dropped 2% from November, according to StatCounter.",
"Now in third place, Firefox remained mostly steady with about 25% of the browser market.",
"Trailing far behind is Apple's Safari, with about 6%.",
"The numbers can vary in the browser race depending on who is counting.",
"Web surveying firm Net Applications still has Explorer at 52%, Firefox at 22% and Chrome at 19%.",
"But that represents a 10-point drop by Explorer since 2010, while Chrome use more than doubled and Firefox remained flat.",
"Gartner analyst David Mitchell Smith thinks Chrome has gathered momentum because it is a strong product.",
"\"People like it because it's fast,\" he said.",
"\"Google has done a nice job advertising it recently, so that's increased awareness.\"",
"Since its rollout, reviews have been generally positive about Chrome.",
"While some call it a work in progress, many have praised its features and speed.",
"\"Super-fast browsing performance, now with hardware acceleration.",
"Excellent security through sandboxing and malware warnings.",
"Instant site prediction and loading,\" PCMag wrote in a review of Chrome 15, giving it 4 1/2 out of 5 stars.",
"The review also praised it for strong support for the emerging HTML5 coding system amd built-in Flash player, while dinging it for still not being compatible with a handful of sites.",
"Smith also said people are more aware than ever that they have a choice of browsers.",
"Internet Explorer has been the dominant browser for more than a decade, at least in large part because it comes installed on Windows machines.",
"\"This was happening even more so when there was a real big difference between what you could get from someone else and what Explorer was,\" he said.",
"\"Now, that's not the case. Explorer 9 is pretty competitive with the other browsers, so maybe there's not as much need to go away from it.\"",
"StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen attributed at least part of Chrome's rise to its increased use among businesses.",
"\"Google announced Chrome for business exactly a year ago and IT administrators appear to have embraced it in a remarkably short time,\" he said.",
"Chrome use already had overtaken Explorer on weekends, when personal use presumably trumps office use, since October.",
"But Chrome 15 became the more popular from Monday to Friday on December 5, he said.",
"Microsoft, putting a positive spin on the numbers, emphasized that Explorer's latest (and generally well-received) version, IE9, is rapidly gaining ground as use of IE8 drops.",
"IE9 was released in March.",
"(To its credit, Microsoft is also celebrating the demise of Internet Explorer 6.",
"Widely reviled by Web developers and many users from the start, use of that version dropped below 1% in the United States last month, with Microsoft spokesman Roger Capriotti writing on the Windows blog that the company is breaking out the champagne and \"as eager as anyone to see it go away.\")",
"The statistics Microsoft used on its blog, which showed Chrome use mostly flat, only looked at browser usage on Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system.",
"The rise of Chrome comes as Google has expanded beyond its core product -- its search engine -- into such areas as mobile operating systems (Android) and social networking (Google Plus).",
"Chrome has been a high point for Google in what has developed into a two-front clash of tech titans with Microsoft.",
"While Google tries to erode Explorer's browser share, Microsoft is taking aim at Google's longtime dominance in search.",
"Launched in 2009, Microsoft's Bing has tried to make Web search a true two-way race.",
"And while Google's stranglehold on that market is still strong, Bing has chipped away.",
"In December, Bing captured about 15% of the search market, compared to 61% for Google, according to Experian Hitwise.",
"One victim of Google's success (not to mention deep pockets) has been Firefox, long a favored browser among tech-savvy types.",
"\"They (Mozilla) were not coming out with a lot of releases and new features for some time,\" Smith said.",
"\"They've really tried to change that in the last year, but perceptions got made during that time frame.",
"\"They were the ones that were the sole recipient of the browser change -- they were the alternative browser for most -- but now they have to split that role with Google.\"",
"Whether Chrome's rise will continue remains to be seen, he said.",
"Web users only tend to seek out a new browser if the one in front of them is lacking, and Internet Explorer appears to have stemmed that tide somewhat.",
"\"Three or four years ago, if you wanted tabs, you had to go to another browser.",
"If you wanted something fast you had to go to another browser,\" Smith said. \"That's not the case any more.\""
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"Google's Chrome browser continues to gain on market leader Internet Explorer .",
"Analysts say Chrome has 27% of the browser market, trailing only IE at 37% .",
"Chrome's rise is part of a two-front Google vs. Microsoft duel that includes Web search .",
"Gartner analyst: New IE9 may help slow Chrome's rise ."
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"(EW.com) -- For the first time, a \"Twilight\" movie has ruled the box office for three weeks in a row.",
"During what was one of the slowest weekends of the year, \"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1\" held on to first, dropping 60 percent for $16.9 million, according to studio estimates.",
"That's a smaller decline than what \"The Twilight Saga: New Moon\" experienced during the same weekend two years ago -- it fell 64 percent.",
"Nevertheless, \"Breaking Dawn -- Part 1\" is still trailing the past two Twilight movies.",
"The fourth entry in the romantic supernatural series has so far grossed a stellar $247.3 million in 17 days.",
"By comparison, \"New Moon\" had earned $255.4 million by this point, while \"The Twilight Saga: Eclipse\" had collected $255.8 million.",
"This will ultimately be a moot point when \"Breaking Dawn -- Part 2\" comes out next November and likely destroys all of the franchise's records.",
"Disney's \"The Muppets\" was the runner-up, plunging a sharp 62 percent -- more than any other wide release -- for a weekend tally of $11.2 million.",
"It's too early to sound the alarm, especially since the movie has already grossed $56.1 million on its $45 million budget.",
"And \"The Muppets\" will likely bounce back with a better hold next week.",
"But it is surprising that a PG-rated family film with such endearing reviews and an \"A\" rating from CinemaScore graders would drop so much.",
"One possible explanation is that after all the activities and shopping of Thanksgiving weekend, many families opted to take it easy this week.",
"It's worth noting that such Thanksgiving releases as 2007′s \"Enchanted\" and last year's \"Tangled\" fell 52 percent and 56 percent, respectively, during their sophomore frames.",
"But \"Hugo,\" \"Arthur Christmas,\" \"Happy Feet Two,\" and \"Puss in Boots\" all had smaller drops than \"The Muppets,\" so there might be something else at play here.",
"Perhaps the film's solid $29.2 million opening weekend was driven more by nostalgic adults than by family audiences.",
"(Disney reported that 65 percent of the picture's audience was over the age of 18.)",
"If that's the case, then those muppety adults all rushed out to see \"The Muppets\" last week, thereby leaving the film somewhat front-loaded.",
"Disney would be wise to release Miss Piggy out into the world to intimidate encourage more families to see the movie.",
"The rest of the top five was occupied by other family films.",
"Martin Scorsese's \"Hugo,\" a 3-D love letter to silent cinema, slipped 33 percent for $7.6 million.",
"The movie's small decline can be partly attributed to the fact that it added more than 500 theaters this weekend.",
"\"Hugo\" has so far taken in $25.2 million on a budget that's reportedly at least $150 million.",
"In fourth place, Sony's \"Arthur Christmas\" declined only 39 percent for $7.4 million.",
"The well-reviewed holiday comedy should continue to hold up well as we approach Christmas Day.",
"And \"Happy Feet Two\" rounded out the top five by diving 55 percent for $6 million.",
"In limited release, the George Clooney dramedy \"The Descendants\" once again posted impressive numbers, grossing $5.2 million from 574 theaters.",
"Fox Searchlight will expand the Oscar hopeful to 850 theaters on Friday.",
"The silent film \"The Artist\" also continued to make some noise with $206,000 from six locations.",
"And, finally, the NC-17 drama \"Shame,\" about a New York sex addict (Michael Fassbender), debuted to a superb $361,000 at 10 theaters.",
"The film may have trouble adding theaters beyond metropolitan areas because of its taboo rating.",
"1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 -- $16.9 mil .",
"2. The Muppets -- $11.2 mil .",
"3. Hugo -- $7.6 mil .",
"4. Arthur Christmas -- $7.4 mil .",
"5. Happy Feet Two -- $6.0 mil .",
"See the full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Breaking Dawn -- Part 1\" is still trailing the past two Twilight movies .",
"\"The Muppets\" was the runner-up, plunging a sharp 62 percent .",
"Martin Scorsese's \"Hugo,\" a 3-D love letter to silent cinema, slipped 33 percent ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. military will continue to use cluster bombs but will try to reduce the number of civilian casualties by redesigning them so there are fewer ordnances that detonate long after the weapon is fired, officials said Wednesday.",
"Parts of a cluster bomb can explode on the ground long after the bomb is fired.",
"The new policy requires that by 2018 the United States use only a new style of cluster bomb -- one with a 99 percent detonation rate for the hundreds of bomblets released from each of the scatter-style weapons.",
"A cluster bomb, when dropped from an aircraft or missile, releases hundreds of smaller explosives each the size of a grenade.",
"When the bomblets detonate, they send shrapnel over an area about the size of a football field.",
"A number of the bomblets have remained undetonated until handled or stepped on by civilians -- often children.",
"In 2006, the top United Nations aid official called Israel's use of cluster bombs in the last three days of that summer's war with Hezbollah \"immoral.\"",
"The U.N. said that 100,000 deadly bomblets dropped in 2006 were still lying unexploded across areas of southern Lebanon, where they are maiming and killing people.",
"Under the new U.S. policy, cluster bombs in its arsenal will be destroyed if they don't meet the 99 percent requirement.",
"In addition, the Department of Defense will begin disposing of excess cluster bombs in its inventory \"as soon as possible,\" according to a Pentagon statement released Wednesday.",
"The policy change comes as international pressure builds for a ban on cluster bombs.",
"The United Kingdom in May joined more than 100 other countries in signing an international treaty that would ban cluster munitions and require that stockpiles be destroyed within eight years.",
"The treaty is expected to be ratified at the end of the year in Oslo, Norway.",
"The United States, Russia, Pakistan, Israel, China and India, all makers of cluster bombs, boycotted the May talks.",
"Pentagon officials have said cluster bombs save the lives of U.S. troops and have a legitimate role in its arsenal.",
"\"They provide distinct advantages against a range of targets, where their use reduces risks to U.S. forces and can save U.S. lives,\" according to a Pentagon statement.",
"Dud rates, the number of bomblets that fail to explode, can range from 3 to 16 percent, according to military watchdog groups.",
"Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who opposes cluster munitions, in June sponsored a joint resolution calling on the Bush administration to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions treaty.",
"\"The Pentagon continues to insist that cluster munitions are necessary, but the country with the world's most powerful military should not be on the sidelines while others are trying to protect the lives and limbs of civilians in war,\" Leahy said at the time."
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"By 2018, the United States will use only a new style of cluster bomb .",
"New bomb will have a 99 percent detonation rate for the hundreds of bomblets .",
"Cluster bombs can release many duds that often hurt unsuspecting civilians ."
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"(CNN) -- Investigators in Thailand have arrested a Lebanese terror suspect who is accused of trying to attack spots in Bangkok that are popular with Western tourists, the Thai government said Friday.",
"It came the same day the United States and Israel warned their citizens in Thailand of the possibility of imminent terrorist attacks in busy tourist areas of Bangkok.",
"The Thai government said the terror suspect is believed to belong to Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim group active in Lebanon that the United States views as a terrorist organization.",
"The United States had passed information to Thai authorities that caused the Thai government to be on high alert and to look for suspects, said Thitima Chaisaeng, a spokeswoman for the Thai government.",
"Neighboring countries received similar information, Chaisaeng said.",
"A U.S. Embassy statement spoke of \"foreign terrorists\" who may be planning attacks \"in the near future.\"",
"It urged U.S. citizens to exercise caution when visiting public areas where large groups of Western tourists gather in Bangkok.",
"A U.S. official says the terror threat against U.S. and Western interests is \"very real\" and remains an \"active investigation, indicating others might be involved in the plot and are being sought.",
"The official would not discuss any details of the nature and timing of any planned attacks.",
"The embassy did not provide any further information on the source of the threat.",
"Israel's Counter Terrorism Bureau issued a \"serious travel warning\" for Bangkok on Friday afternoon, saying there is a possibility of an attack against Israeli tourists \"in the immediate time frame.\"",
"The warning says said the Lebanese suspect who was arrested is a member of Hezbollah and part of a group planning an attack in the Thai capital.",
"Thailand is a highly popular tourist destination, and Bangkok serves as a major transport hub for the Southeast Asian region.",
"Analysts Friday were split on the possibility that Hezbollah, designated by the United States as a terrorist organization, is active in the country.",
"\"Historically, Hezbollah hasn't had an active presence in Thailand,\" said CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen, who called the claim \"pretty surprising.\"",
"But Matthew Levitt, an expert on counterterrorism and intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said the group has acted there before.",
"\"Hezbollah has been active in Thailand in the past, most notably the attempt to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok in 1994,\" said Levitt, the author of the upcoming book \"Hezbollah's Global Footprint.\"",
"\"It has retained most of the logistical activity in Thailand for many years, and if in fact this individual is tied to Hezbollah, this would not be something new,\" he said.",
"Thailand has undergone periods of unrest in recent years.",
"It experienced a spate of political violence during anti-government demonstrations in 2010.",
"And Muslim separatists in southern Thailand have long battled government forces in a country that is overwhelmingly Buddhist, with a number of bombings taking place last year.",
"The embassy said U.S. citizens should \"maintain a heightened awareness when out in public,\" advising them to be on the lookout for unattended packages and bags in public places and other crowded areas.",
"It also suggested that they \"keep a low profile in public areas, particularly areas frequented by foreign tourists.\"",
"Fran Townsend, a national security analyst for CNN, reported that Thai officials at one of the airports serving Bangkok were conducting pat downs and bag searches on all passengers at the departure gate for U.S. air carriers.",
"CNN's Michal Zippori, Pam Benson, and Melissa Gray contributed to this report."
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"Thai investigators arrest terror suspect .",
"\"Foreign terrorists\" could be planning attacks \"in the near future,\" the U.S. Embassy says .",
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"(RealSimple.com) -- \"I am leaving,\" I murmured to my husband.",
"\"You cannot leave,\" he hissed back.",
"\"It is 3 a.m. These are our friends.\" \"Don't worry. I'll just find a hotel and be back here in time for breakfast.",
"They won't even know I left.\"",
"\"You cannot do this again! People think we're mad.",
"You cannot leave someone's house just because a doorknob is sticky.\"",
"Oh, but it wasn't just the doorknob.",
"It was everything, at least in my mind.",
"This was about 10 years ago, and my husband and I had been invited as weekend guests to the home of dear friends with a one-year-old son.",
"This was before I had my own kids, before I realized that the essential condition of childhood is stickiness and that I would spend the first five years of their lives fearfully clutching wet wipes.",
"RealSimple.com: How to be a good friend .",
"Right then I knew only one thing: A doorknob was whispering to me, all Amityville Horror-like: GET.",
"OUT. I have never been a good houseguest.",
"And -- despite what this episode might imply -- it's not because I'm impressively fastidious.",
"I am a complete slob in my own home, albeit one with dry, noncling surfaces.",
"But after years of trying very hard to enjoy myself when other people invite me over for the weekend, I've basically given up.",
"I like to think I'm the best kind of guest: one who doesn't actually stay with you.",
"Oddly, people don't always see it my way.",
"Particularly the house-proud, those who love their 1,000-count sheets and cunning window treatments and Viking stoves with the special tiny flame for heating chocolate or whatever the hell it does -- those people don't like me.",
"They don't like me a lot. I have lost friends over my inability to just get with the program and bask in their hostessy generosity.",
"Here's the thing: My husband -- a Brit whose love of staying at other people's homes could rival that of Bertie Wooster, from P. G. Wodehouse novels -- thinks I am rude.",
"He is incorrect. What I suffer from is an overabundance of politeness, and a terror of all the ways I can fail to live up to my own standards.",
"I am cursed with the knowledge of my impolitic nature, and if I have to spend more than a couple of hours being courteous, I become convinced I will get too cavalier and say whatever stupid thing is on my mind.",
"And there are many stupid things on my mind.",
"RealSimple.com: Small, helpful gestures with big impact .",
"So I have to be eternally vigilant.",
"I'm like a werewolf who, when espying a full moon, knows that the only way the people he loves will live to see tomorrow is if he locks himself in the closet and swallows the key.",
"When I confessed this problem of mine to a friend, she immediately started listing all the wonderful times she's had in other people's houses: the hammocks she's lain in, the Pimm's she's sipped in tall, icy glasses while allowing herself to feel loved and nurtured.",
"She is insane. Allow me to catalog The Many Ways Things Can Go Wrong When You Stay With People.",
"People hide the items you need most.",
"Where's the coffee? No, not that decaffeinated imposter; the real coffee.",
"No wonder everyone in this house is still asleep at 6:30 a.m. Fine, I will just go out and buy coffee at the corner store.",
"Oh wait, there's no store at the corner -- that's a pond.",
"It's 6:30 a.m. and all I want to do at this point is run home.",
"I will be repeating the same interior monologue at midnight, only this time it will be about gin cocktails.",
"I mean, what kind of people don't keep their limes in plain sight?",
"RealSimple.com: 5 ways to win people over .",
"People in other houses eat things that are not, in fact, edible.",
"I think the idea is that when you're having guests, the experience must involve \"special food,\" and \"special food\" nine times out of 10 is completely horrifying.",
"Seriously, if octopus really tasted that good, wouldn't there be Octo Shacks dotting America?",
"Of course, I also despise people who make a big to-do about their precious little eating habits.",
"So I say nothing.",
"Instead, now and then, I bring little treats with me that I like and, naturally, intend to share.",
"Occasionally this goes over well.",
"\"How thoughtful!\" the host exclaims.",
"More often, though, she shoots me an icy stare: Oh, my cooking isn't good enough for you?",
"People's houses are quiet.",
"I live in Manhattan, and as a result I'm a little weird about silence.",
"Out in the hinterlands, the no-noise freaks me out.",
"Where are the car horns? The garbage trucks backing up?",
"Why is nobody screaming, \"I will kill you!\"",
"in the middle of the night?",
"It's unsettling. In this frame of mind, every owl hoot sounds like the arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.",
"People have trick mirrors.",
"Truly, I am 10 pounds fatter in everyone else's home.",
"Is it the mirrors? Or maybe it's the fact that other people have mirrors, which I do not.",
"RealSimple.com: 5 ways to stay cool under pressure .",
"People you never want to visualize without shoes will inevitably appear before you, naked.",
"OK, maybe not naked.",
"But not dressed enough.",
"And to me that generally means something on either the top or the bottom is missing.",
"People don't appreciate poorly worded compliments.",
"Personally, I never seem to strike the right chord.",
"I think the problem is that I'm a Decor Moron: I don't know the difference between Pottery Barn and Precious Heirloom.",
"Once, I visited a particularly grand family and started gushing over the adorable handiwork of their fourth grader, who had molded all these tiny circus animals and placed them in a whimsical diorama on the coffee table.",
"\"That's a Calder,\" the father replied coolly.",
"People have problematic toilets.",
"Need I say more? People's houses seem to invite trouble.",
"They just do. All the time. I mean, I'm not Miss Marple; it's not as if when I show up at someone's house homicidal shenanigans follow.",
"But I have never been to someone's home without bringing some sort of bad karma with me.",
"RealSimple.com: 13 productive things to do while watching TV .",
"How did I arrive at the home of a friend whose three-year-old had, just at that moment, contracted chicken pox, ensuring that I -- one of the three adults in the entire universe who had not suffered from the disease as a child -- would end up in the emergency room 10 days later?",
"Why did I knock on the door of a friend's house the day it was swarmed by ladybugs -- thus guaranteeing that I, an insectophobe, would spend the night listening to the gentle plink of tiny hard-shelled creatures kamikaze-ing themselves onto my bedclothes?",
"Please let me be clear: In theory, I want to visit you.",
"(And I hope you visit me, because my fear and loathing of being a houseguest does not, oddly enough, apply to having houseguests.)",
"After all, I like you so much. I want to coo at your kids, cuddle with your pets, inventory the drugs in your medicine cabinet, and talk into the wee hours.",
"And then I want to go to a hotel, empty the minibar, and write you a thank-you note before hanging my breakfast order on the spotless doorknob so the pot of hot, fully caffeinated coffee will be delivered at exactly 6:30 a.m. Judith Newman is the author of You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman ($13, amazon.com).",
"She has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Vogue.",
"She lives in Manhattan.",
"RealSimple.com: How to make a good first impression .",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of Real Simple - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2011 Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Newman believes she suffers from 'an overabundance of politeness'\nNewman would rather spend time with friends and family then sleep at a hotel ."
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"(CNN) -- Chinese media on Wednesday played up the positives in Xi Jinping's visit to Washington, avoiding mention of U.S. criticism of human rights but broaching issues of trade and U.S. discontent with the strength of the Chinese currency.",
"A commentary in the official China Daily said U.S. President Barack Obama was deflecting criticism of his own domestic political problems by drawing attention to the rivalry over the currencies, but that the U.S. administration had little heart for an open fight over the issue.",
"\"When the Senate was about to vote on a bill to punish 'currency manipulators' last fall, the White House put it off with strong words and possibly behind-the-scene political maneuvers,\" the newspaper said in a commentary.",
"\"Senior economic officials in the Obama administration know that unless all the major Asian currencies increase in value, even a drastic revaluation of the yuan would simply mean U.S. imports from China would just switch to the other countries in the region.\"",
"The U.S. has long called for the Chinese currency, the yuan or renminbi, to be floated to gain its true value.",
"The administration claim that an artificially suppressed currency is unfair to U.S. exporters, making it cheaper for suppliers to source Chinese manufactured goods.",
"The timing of the visit was not lost on the pro-government Global Times which said the Valentine's Day meeting showed all the complexity of a romantic story.",
"\"China is a newcomer on the diplomatic stage of major powers.",
"It is still unfamiliar with how to use its power and how to deal with provocations from smaller countries,\" the newspaper said in an editorial.",
"\"Facing giants like the U.S. and Europe, China is accustomed to acting with care.",
"It never stirs up trouble willingly, instead, when a crisis occurs, China's first reaction is to seek to defuse tension.\"",
"A common theme in Chinese diplomacy and in its official media is that when backed into a corner, China must pursue its own interests.",
"\"China does not need to satisfy the West at the expense of its own interests.",
"China will not provoke the U.S. and Europe, but it has its own principles to follow,\" the editorial said.",
"\"Chinese officials should take opportunities to make the world understand these.\"",
"While the Chinese also have trade complaints against the U.S., in particular U.S. export controls on high-tech exports, there was no mention of issues that have seen China excluded from U.S. preferential trade right status.",
"Similarly, there was little mention of U.S. criticism of China's human rights record or its position on Syria, both of them sticking point in Sino-U.S. relations.",
"Xi -- who is being groomed for the Chinese presidency - is the highest-ranking Chinese official to visit since Obama launched a new U.S. policy in Asia in November designed to reassert its influence in the Pacific.",
"Beijing has expressed misgiving about the U.S. \"pivot\" which is pushing for a new free-trade agreement with at least eight countries in the Asia region and has secured military basing rights in Australia."
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"Chinese media says Obama deflecting criticism of his domestic policies ."
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"(CNN) -- Chinese authorities in eastern Jiangsu Province have launched a massive manhunt for a suspect in a deadly armed robbery, according to Chinese media.",
"The suspect allegedly shot and killed a man who had just withdrawn 200,000 yuan ($31,700) from a bank in Nanjing's Dongmen Street on January 6 and then fled the scene in a car, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported.",
"Nanjing Public Security Bureau's Xuanwu district office told CNN that more than 80,000 police have joined the manhunt, while a reward of 150,000 yuan has been offered for information leading to the killer's arrest.",
"Authorities believe the suspect -- a man in his early 40s from Sichuan province called Zeng Kaigui -- is also responsible for shooting dead six others in six robberies in Changsha and Chongqing municipality over the past seven years.",
"Nanjing police have obtained two video clips of the suspect escaping the scene and published them online, and said Zeng is of medium build and wears black outfits during the robbery.",
"Police have posted Zeng's profile picture in public places like subway stations and Internet cafes, and have handed them out to taxi and bus drivers throughout the c .",
"Many big screens in downtown Nanjing are also showing the suspect's video clips hourly with police warnings to citizens.",
"CNN's Shao Tian contributed to this report."
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"Massive search launched for killer who robbed a man of $31,700 .",
"More than 80,000 police have joined the manhunt for the suspect in Nanjing .",
"Police have obtained two video clips of the suspect escaping the scene .",
"The robber is believed to have killed at least six others throughout China ."
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"(CNN) -- As many as 32 tourists who were trapped in South Africa's Kruger National Park after torrential rains and flooding have been rescued, park officials said Thursday.",
"At least 70 other tourists, including Italians and Britons, and 10 staff members who were trapped in the rising waters had already been evacuated from washed-away cars and flooded camps at the safari destination, the officials said.",
"David Mabunda, the chief executive of South African National Parks, flew over the park Thursday to witness the extent of the damage.",
"He says there were no serious injuries and no people or animals were killed.",
"The most serious damage was to the infrastructure.",
"\"Roads, bridges, culverts, water supply pumps have been washed away.",
"Barring a few tents, there has been limited damage to the tourism facilities,\" he said.",
"At least 1,800 people are believed to have been in the park when the rain and flooding began Monday.",
"The park has been declared 80% operational and the repair work is expected to take less than six months to complete.",
"\"The sun is shining now.",
"The main roads are still accessible and that is where most of the highlights are, so people must continue to come to the park,\" Mabunda told CNN.",
"This is not the first time the Kruger, as it is popularly known, has been hit by floods.",
"It took 10 months to repair the damage caused by rains in 2000.",
"Mabunda says this time, disaster management was more prepared and so were the park's buildings.",
"\"Our tourism facilities stood the test of the floods.",
"The embankments and walls withstood the impact.",
"The only problem we have now is water supply to the camps, which is a problem we are working on.",
"We are also limiting day visitors in order to cope better.\"",
"Visitors already in the park were \"urged to exercise caution around rivers as crocodiles are likely to be in flat areas,\" according to a statement on the South African National Parks website.",
"The park plans to ask the government to help cover some of the repair costs.",
"Kruger National Park, South Africa's flagship big-game park and a top destination of foreign tourists, was established in 1898.",
"It covers more than 7,500 square miles and boasts hundreds of animal and plant species, according to the National Parks' website."
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"Several camps were stranded after torrential rains fell Monday .",
"80 people have already been evacuated from the Kruger National Park, officials say .",
"The park, well-known for its safaris, covers more than 7,500 square miles ."
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"Hanoi, Vietnam (CNN) -- Five years ago, Pham Binh Minh was a 15-year-old spending his nights on the streets of Hanoi, Vietnam's capital.",
"With his father dead and his mother too poor to adequately feed or clothe him, Pham survived by collecting and selling scrap.",
"\"I didn't have time to make friends,\" he said.",
"\"The friends I did have ... would take me to do work that wasn't good.",
"... We would rob and steal from people. ...",
"I was scared I would get arrested.",
"I was scared people would hit me.",
"I felt unsafe.\"",
"It's an all-too-common story in Hanoi, where many Vietnamese youth -- often poor children from outside the city -- seek opportunity.",
"If they're lucky, they're able to get by working odd jobs such as shining shoes or selling trinkets.",
"\"Kids come to the streets hoping that it'll be better than living in poverty in the countryside, but often they find that things are much worse for them here,\" said Michael Brosowski, whose nonprofit foundation helps Vietnamese street children turn their lives around.",
"It was through Brosowski's Blue Dragon Children's Foundation that Pham was able to graduate high school and enroll in college.",
"Since 2004, Blue Dragon has helped more than 350 Vietnamese children get off the streets and into school.",
"\"(Our) job is to make sure that the kids are safe and protected, first of all,\" said Brosowski, 37.",
"\"And then once they are, we've got to make sure they're working toward something, whether that's education or getting a job or improving their health.\"",
"A 2006 report from Human Rights Watch estimated that 23,000 street children were living throughout Vietnam.",
"Brosowski said he has encountered children -- some as young as 6 -- sleeping under bridges and in trees.",
"\"Mom's in prison, dad's a heroin addict.",
"The kids (are) thinking, 'Well, that's my future as well,' \" Brosowski said.",
"\"Our biggest challenge is to stop the kids from accepting that fate -- to fight their own fate and make their own future.\"",
"On the streets, children are susceptible to a wide range of threats and pitfalls: gang violence, bullying, child trafficking, the lure of a booming heroin trade.",
"Blue Dragon tries to combat these issues by giving children what they need to get off the streets and stay off them.",
"Some common examples include safe housing, food subsidies, school sponsorships, job training and medical attention.",
"\"Our (initial) goal was just to get them back to school,\" Brosowski said.",
"\"We realized that to do that ... we would have to take that place of providing an income, giving them money for food, providing the shelter.",
"We would actually have to take care of all aspects of their life.\"",
"Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes .",
"In Hanoi, Blue Dragon's center offers food, clothing, classrooms, play space and a computer lab.",
"There is also bed space for 20 in the group's nearby shelter.",
"Each child who comes through the center is provided with a dedicated social worker and has access to a psychologist, counselors, teachers and lawyers.",
"\"Child by child, we've got to work out what we can do and what they need,\" Brosowski said.",
"\"And we've also got to be careful that if the child has a family, that the family is as involved as possible.\"",
"In addition to the Hanoi center, Blue Dragon also has three other locations throughout Vietnam that help street children and those living in extreme poverty.",
"Funded by donations and grants, the foundation has assisted more than 2,500 children in all.",
"\"I grew up in poverty,\" Brosowski said.",
"\"I often used to think to myself, 'I could do something good with my life if only someone would come and give me that chance.'",
"And then I was here in Hanoi ... and I realized now I'm the guy.",
"I'm the guy who can help these kids and give them a chance.\"",
"Brosowski, an Australian, moved to Vietnam in 2002 to teach English at the university level.",
"Within several months, he met a few street children shining shoes and was inspired by their untapped potential.",
"He befriended the boys and began teaching them with the help of one of his university students, Pham Sy Chung.",
"As he met more and more street children in need, Brosowski eventually decided to quit his job and devote himself full-time to Blue Dragon.",
"Today, he has a staff of 44, several of whom have been helped by the foundation in the past.",
"\"There really was no thinking at that time that this would become something big,\" he said.",
"\"It was just a case of, here are these kids, there's no one else to help them, but I can.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation website at www.streetkidsinvietnam.com and see how to help.",
"CNN's Alex Zolbert and Scott Clotworthy contributed to this report."
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"Michael Brosowski is trying to help these kids -- some as young as 6 -- rebound .",
"His nonprofit has provided shelter, food subsidies, school fees and other necessities .",
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"Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes ."
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"(CNN) -- The South Korean government announced expanded sanctions against Iran Friday, blacklisting more than 100 firms and individuals.",
"\"Ninety-nine companies and 6 individuals have been added to the list, all related to Iranian nuclear weapon development,\" said Kim Young-min with the finance ministry.",
"Last year, South Korea blacklisted 102 organizations and 24 individuals.",
"The government also warned South Korean companies that \"they may find disadvantages when doing business with the U.S. if they contribute to the Iranian petroleum industry or petrochemical maintenance expansion,\" Kim said.",
"The latest sanctions are part of a U.S.-led, but international effort to tighten the screws around the Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.",
"Britain has cut all financial ties with Iran, the first time it has cut an entire country's banking sector off from British finance, the British Treasury announced in November.",
"Similarly, Canada has implemented a series of tougher sanctions, prohibiting almost all financial transactions with the Iranian government.",
"Russia and China have been reluctant to impose strong sanctions against Iran.",
"The moves followed an International Atomic Energy Agency report highlighting new concerns about \"the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program.\"",
"Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful and has called the U.N. watchdog's report \"unbalanced\" and \"politically motivated.\"",
"CNN's Paula Hancock contributed to this report ."
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"Finance ministry warns against investments in Iran's oil industry .",
"More than 100 additional firms and individuals are blacklisted .",
"Russia and China have been reluctant to impose strong sanctions against Iran .",
"Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful ."
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"(Financial Times) -- When pop sensation Girls' Generation recently provided the grand finale to the Late Show with David Letterman, a top slot on US television, it signalled that South Korea's entertainment industry had broken out of Asia and is now looking to make it big in the west.",
"Just days after making their first appearance on US network television with their hit single \"The Boys\", the band of nine telegenic women this week returned to France -- where tickets for a 2011 concert sold out in 15 minutes -- to sing on prime time television.",
"Korean films, soap operas and \"K-Pop\" music idols, many of which were modelled on Japan's own sugary \"J-Pop\", have taken Asia by storm over the past decade.",
"But the hallyu -- or \"Korean wave\" as the phenomenon is known in Asia -- is now spreading to Europe and the US, and spurring South Korea's export earnings.",
"Cultural exports -- including films, comics and computer games -- hit a record $4.2bn last year, up from $2.6bn in 2009, causing the share prices of leading entertainment studios to soar.",
"Even Korea's favourite cartoon character, the penguin Pororo, has appeared on television in 120 countries.",
"Cho Hyun-jin, a government representative who coined the phrase K-Pop for Korean bands in a previous incarnation as a journalist, said the spread of Korean music had surpassed his highest hopes.",
"\"It was my old heroes like Led Zeppelin who famously played Madison Square Garden.",
"Now to see Girls' Generation there is amazing,\" he said.",
"While Korea has been an export powerhouse for decades in electronics, ships and cars, manufacturing companies have rarely played up their Korean brand identity, fearing until recently they would be seen as inferior in quality to Japanese rivals.",
"Cultural exports are, however, giving the once reclusive country a global cachet for the first time, shaking off the war-torn images of the US comedy M*A*S*H. Broadcasting exports such as television dramas hit $252m last year, up from $185m in 2009, according to government statistics.",
"Music earned $177m, soaring from only $31m in 2009.",
"Film exports earned $26m, up from $14m in 2009.",
"Until recently, hallyu was seen as an Asian phenomenon.",
"A 2003 drama called \"Jewel in the Palace\" about a female doctor at a 16th-century royal court proved a huge hit from Taiwan to Iran, and has more recently come to eastern Europe.",
"Asia is still crucial and the most effective managers continue to target export markets there.",
"Park Jin-young, the impresario who runs JYP Entertainment, created the band Miss A with two Korean and two Chinese singers, so they can record their hits in both Korean and Mandarin.",
"Girls' Generation sing in Korean, English and Japanese.",
"\"The next phase is for the music industry to introduce western singers to globalise the boy and girl bands further,\" said Han Koo-hyun, president of the Korean Wave Research Institute.",
"Koreans have been surprised by the enthusiasm for K-Pop in the west, where Korean culture receives scant attention in mainstream media.",
"Korean newspapers splash photographs of packed French concert halls or British fans greeting Girls' Generation with signs in Korean.",
"These European fans have largely discovered K-Pop through social networking sites, Facebook and YouTube.",
"Many commentators have also observed that K-Pop's novelty to outsiders comes from the years of training -- sometimes in tough quasi-boot camps -- that stars endure to ensure their songs are accompanied by immaculate group choreography that is rare in other pop music.",
"While cultural exports are a source of national pride, Koreans are also calling for improved regulation of the industry.",
"The suicide of Jang Ja-yeon, a soap starlet, in 2009, focused attention on hallyu's dark underworld where some performers are locked into slave contracts and are told to sleep with managers to win roles.",
"Additional reporting by Kang Buseong and Jonathan Soble .",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2012 ."
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"(CNN) -- A body pulled from a Wisconsin river has been identified as the son of Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator Joe Philbin, police said Tuesday.",
"Michael Philbin, 21, went missing early Sunday while in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to visit friends, police said.",
"No cause of death was immediately determined, and an autopsy was set for Tuesday, Oshkosh Police Chief Scott Greuel said at a news conference.",
"\"We love Michael so much and will miss him dearly,\" Joe Philbin said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.",
"\"He loved his family, friends and life.",
"His memory will live on in the hearts and minds of all who knew him.\"",
"Philbin thanked the agencies that assisted in the search for his son, and expressed gratitude for \"the prayers and the support of our family, friends and the Packers family.\"",
"On behalf of the team, Packers General Manager Ted Thompson said everyone's thoughts and prayers were with the family.",
"\"This is an emotional and difficult time for them, and we ask that everyone respect their privacy,\" he said.",
"\"All of us in the Packers family share in their grief.\"",
"The body was found Monday in the Fox River after Oshkosh police put out an alert asking citizens for help in locating Philbin, who lived about 20 miles away in Ripon.",
"His last known communication was at 2 a.m. Sunday, police said.",
"\"He talked to a friend.",
"He didn't sound like he was under duress or he had any medical condition,\" police spokesman Joe Nichols told CNN affiliate WTMJ Monday.",
"\"The phone conversation ended, and that was the last time someone had voice contact.\"",
"Michael Philbin was the second-eldest of six children of Joe Philbin and his wife, Diane, according to the Packers' website.",
"His funeral is set for Friday.",
"His father coached for 19 years at college football programs before coming to Green Bay in 2003 as an assistant offensive line coach.",
"He became the team's offensive coordinator in 2007 and played a significant part in the Packers' league-best 15-1 regular season record this season.",
"CNN's Kara Devlin contributed to this report."
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"NEW: \"We love Michael so much and will miss him dearly,\" Joe Philbin says .",
"Michael Philbin, 21, had been missing since early Sunday .",
"No cause of death is known; an autopsy is set for Tuesday ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- Three 60-foot steel beams fell 40 stories at the World Trade Center construction site Thursday after a crane cable snapped.",
"Authorities said no one was injured when the beams -- each weighing several tons -- came hurtling down from one of the new towers being built at the site of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.",
"\"The cable of a crane broke, causing the steel it was lifting to fall approximately 40 stories back onto the flatbed truck that had transported the steel into the World Trade Center site,\" said a statement from John Gallagher, spokesman for Tishman Construction, which manages the site.",
"\"The incident occurred within an enclosed section of the site, which is not accessible to the public.\"",
"The 72-story building, which will face the World Trade Center memorial park honoring the victims of 9/11, is scheduled to officially open in the fall of 2013, according to the World Trade Center website.",
"\"Fortunately... nobody was hurt,\" New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference Thursday.",
"Gallagher said in his statement that the construction company was \"investigating the matter in full cooperation\" with authorities including the New York fire department, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the city's Department of Buildings.",
"\"The job is partially shut down pending the investigation,\" Gallagher said."
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"Washington (CNN) -- At the end of another long and confusing day of political wrangling over extending the payroll tax cut, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi asked a question on everybody's mind.",
"\"The public has to be concerned and wondering why on Earth are we not getting a payroll tax cut when everybody says they're for it?\"",
"Pelosi, D-California, said at a news conference Tuesday.",
"The answer involves the usual suspects of partisan divide in Congress and the politics of a coming election year.",
"This time, though, there is another factor: disarray among congressional Republicans that has led to a public rift between GOP members of the House and Senate.",
"On Tuesday, House Republicans pushed their call for further negotiations on a one-year extension of the payroll tax cut.",
"They ridiculed a Senate plan for a two-month extension as irresponsible and unworkable, saying it would create uncertainty by failing to resolve the issue past February.",
"However, the Senate agreement was negotiated by Democratic and Republican leaders and received strong GOP support in passing on an 89-10 vote.",
"In effect, the criticism by House Republicans was directed at their Senate party brethren as well as Democrats, adding another twist to the reasons for the impasse.",
"Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, spoke with disdain on the House floor Tuesday about what he repeatedly referred to the \"wisdom of the Senate\" and asked his House colleagues to \"look what the Senate did,\" calling the two-month extension plan \"really irresponsible on all levels.\"",
"Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, also took issue with the Senate plan, saying he had asked Senate leaders to send the House a proposal but when it arrived, \"the House disagreed with it.\"",
"Boehner's problem is that he initially urged his House colleagues to back the Senate measure, according to a GOP source who spoke of what happened in a conference call of the Republican House caucus Saturday.",
"While Boehner referred to the Senate measure approved that day as the best deal the House would get, his top deputy -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia -- opposed it and urged the caucus to reject it, the source said.",
"Boehner disputed that characterization of the caucus meeting, saying Tuesday he let Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell know of his disapproval of a short-term extension as the Senate negotiation approached finality.",
"\"I expressed my displeasure in once again taking the convenient route and not doing the people's work,\" said Boehner, who now leads the House Republican opposition to the Senate plan.",
"Democrats have seized on the Republican disunity, noting that GOP leaders have blocked votes in both the House and Senate on payroll tax proposals backed by their party.",
"\"If we do not have a payroll tax cut, it's because the Republicans in the House of Representatives have chosen to paint themselves in a different place than Republicans in the country and Republicans in the United States Senate,\" Pelosi noted Tuesday.",
"While House Republicans say they support a one-year extension of the payroll tax cut, the fact that they refuse to pass the Senate measure that would provide a two-month extension and more time to negotiate shows they have a different agenda, she said.",
"'Whatever they say is irrelevant,\" Pelosi said of House Republicans.",
"\"What they do is what's important, and what they're doing is not giving a payroll tax cut to 160 million Americans.\"",
"President Barack Obama joined the Democratic chorus, noting that Senate leaders from both parties had agreed to the short-term extension in order to guarantee that taxes don't increase for working Americans while negotiations continue early next year on the one-year extension that House Republicans say they support.",
"\"What they're really holding out for is to wring concessions from Democrats on issues that have nothing to do with the payroll tax cut,\" Obama said of House Republicans.",
"Another problem for Republicans is that they have blocked votes in both chambers on payroll tax-cut proposals they crafted or endorsed.",
"House Republicans pushed through a bill extending the lower rate enacted last year through 2012, but tacked on other provisions opposed by Democrats and some GOP senators.",
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, was against holding a Senate vote on the House plan, apparently because he knew it would fail.",
"On Monday night, House Republican leaders ruled out a direct up-and-down vote on the Senate's two-month extension of the payroll tax cut.",
"Instead, the House on Tuesday passed a procedural resolution that expressed disagreement with the Senate plan and called for a conference committee made up of members of both chambers to negotiate a compromise.",
"Obama and House Democrats called for a direct vote on the Senate plan, with Pelosi saying the refusal by GOP leaders to bring it up showed they feared enough Republican members would join the Democratic minority to pass it.",
"To CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen, Republicans have been \"outmaneuvered\" on the issue.",
"Obama and the Democrats have \"put the Republicans in the House into a position where they look like they are clearly obstructing,\" Gergen said.",
"The unresolved dispute continued to pit Republican versus Republican on Tuesday.",
"Five mostly moderate Republican senators have called for the House to support the Senate's two-month extension.",
"One of them, Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, issued a statement after Tuesday's House vote that said House Republicans \"would rather continue playing politics than find solutions.\"",
"\"Their actions will hurt American families and be detrimental to our fragile economy,\" said Brown, who is facing a stiff re-election challenge in heavily Democratic Massachusetts next year.",
"\"We are Americans first; now is not the time for drawing lines in the sand.\"",
"Veteran Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who voted for the Senate's proposal, told CNN that the reality of the issue is that the payroll tax cut must be extended to help out Americans still struggling in the economic recovery.",
"\"It is harming the Republican Party,\" McCain said of the continuing impasse.",
"\"It is harming the view, if it's possible any more, of the American people about Congress.\""
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"Sen. McCain says the impasse is hurting the Republican Party ."
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"Berlin (CNN) -- An Italian anarchist group has claimed responsibility for a failed mail bomb attack on Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann, German investigators said Thursday.",
"A suspicious package sent to Ackermann contained a functioning bomb, law enforcement officials in the state of Hesse said.",
"The package also contained a note from the Informal Federation of Anarchists, or FAI, the Frankfurt state prosecutor and Hesse investigators said in a statement.",
"The note mentioned \"three explosions against banks, bankers, ticks and blood suckers,\" the officials said.",
"The letter raises the possibility that two other letter bombs were sent out to other institutions, the statement said.",
"The FAI an offshoot of the Italian Anarchist Federation.",
"The group has claimed responsibility in previous years for failed mail bombs sent to some European embassies.",
"Formed in 1945, the Italian Anarchist Federation had seen \"a slow but constant increase\" of supporters in recent years, said the website of an umbrella group, L'International des Federations Anarchistes.",
"The Italian organization aims for \"radical change\" in support of \"oppressed and exploited peoples,\" doing so with opposition to political powers and even the Catholic Church, the website said.",
"The package was intercepted Wednesday, said police in New York, whom the Germans alerted so they could step up security at Deutsche Bank offices in Manhattan.",
"The device, which contained shrapnel, was detected in the bank's mail room around 1 p.m. local time, said New York Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne.",
"It did not detonate. \"The return address was listed as a European central bank, which would likely increase the chances of him opening it,\" said Browne, who urged a general increase in mail room security."
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"The package was intercepted Wednesday at Deutsche Bank mail room in Germany .",
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"New York police increase security around Deutsche Bank in Manhattan ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has postponed his return from exile until the political situation in Pakistan and the court cases against him are resolved, a senior leader in his party said Friday.",
"Another party source who is close to Musharraf but did not want to be named said Musharraf will not return in the next year and is stepping out of politics.",
"Musharraf has lived in exile in London and Dubai since resigning in 2008.",
"He has vowed to return to his home country and run in upcoming elections, though his party recently said he was reassessing those plans after Pakistan's upper house of parliament demanded his arrest.",
"\"Musharraf didn't want to postpone it; the party forced him to do this,\" said Muhammad Ali Saif, a senior leader in Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League.",
"He said the party made the decision after two days of meetings in Dubai.",
"The party will decide Musharraf's plan for return once the political situation has been resolved, he added.",
"The unnamed party source said there has also been talk within the All Pakistan Muslim League about whether to disband because Musharraf's supporters are \"disheartened and frustrated.\"",
"Pakistan's upper house of Parliament passed a nonbinding resolution this week demanding Musharraf be arrested and tried for treason for unconstitutional acts during his regime, Sen. Muhammad Ibrahim Khan said.",
"Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Friday that Musharraf will \"certainly\" be arrested if he returns to Pakistan.",
"The charges against Musharraf are in connection with the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.",
"A U.N. report in 2010 accused Musharraf's government of failing to protect Bhutto, who had returned to Pakistan from exile to run for office.",
"Musharraf has denied the allegations, arguing that Bhutto had police protection and took unnecessary risks.",
"Pakistan is facing its most serious political crisis in years, with rapidly escalating conflicts between the civilian government, the military and the judiciary against the backdrop of a faltering economy, widespread poverty, corruption and the bloody war with Islamist militant groups.",
"CNN's Aliza Kassim contributed to this report."
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"The Pakistani prime minister says Musharraf will be arrested upon his return to Pakistan .",
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"(CNN) -- As plans for the weekend funeral of singer Whitney Houston took shape, investigators continued Thursday to look into the singer's prescription drugs and her actions in the days before her death.",
"Investigators are aware of Houston's partying at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, and other venues \"even the night before she died,\" a source close to the death investigation told CNN's Don Lemon on Thursday.",
"Hotel personnel have said Houston, 48, was \"partying the night before her death in the bar,\" the source said.",
"Investigators are looking at video from Houston's television appearances and other reports as part of the investigation into her physical state and behavior leading up to her death, the source said.",
"Houston died Saturday on the eve of the Grammy Awards.",
"Hotel surveillance video could reveal Houston's activities in the common areas of the hotel, the source said.",
"The source would not confirm such video exists, but said investigators have requested it.",
"The anti-anxiety medication Xanax was among prescription drugs found in the room, the source said.",
"Houston's family members and staff confirmed she used the medication, the source said, but investigators don't know whether she took it the day she died.",
"No Valium or other drugs classified as benzodiazepines, or sedatives, were found in the room, according to the source.",
"Houston also had a prescription for the antibiotic amoxicillin, the source said, but \"if taken as prescribed, it's not going to kill you.\"",
"Medicine and pill bottles found in Houston's hotel room are currently undergoing basic testing, but nothing so far indicates anything criminal occurred, the source said.",
"Officials are trying to speed up toxicology testing, the source told CNN.",
"The source also said any preliminary reporting that family members were told a deadly mixture of alcohol and drugs led to Houston's death is speculative.",
"Investigators do not know what mixture, if any Houston, had in her body.",
"When paramedics arrived in Houston's hotel suite, she was in the room, not in the bathroom, the source said.",
"\"She was lying on the floor, wet, on her back\" and had already been removed from the bathtub, according to the source.",
"\"No one official ever saw her in the bathtub or the bathroom,\" the source said.",
"\"The assistant and a bodyguard reported to emergency personnel that Houston was removed from the tub.\"",
"Her body was initially discovered by her assistant, Mary Jones, who was often called \"Aunt Mary,\" a family source said earlier this week.",
"The source said investigators have contacted physicians and pharmacies around the country for information.",
"The Mickey Fine Pharmacy and Grill in Beverly Hills was one of the pharmacies subpoenaed, the source said.",
"The pharmacy did nothing criminal and is not the focus of the investigation, the source said.",
"One of the prescriptions found in Houston's suite was from Mickey Fine, according to Ed Winter, assistant chief coroner at the Los Angeles County Coroner's office.",
"But \"the prescription that came from Mickey Fine is not something that would kill her,\" Winter has said.",
"Mickey Fine is \"getting a bad rap from some in the media as if they're the ones doling out prescriptions,\" the source told CNN.",
"\"They're actually the good guys and have been extremely cooperative with the investigation.\"",
"Winter has said that while prescription medication was found in Houston's room, the amount was less than that usually present in overdose deaths.",
"A second source, briefed on Houston's behavior and activity in the days before her death, said she was seen ordering and consuming considerable quantities of alcohol at the hotel two mornings last week.",
"Houston ordered the drinks before 10 a.m. last Wednesday and Thursday from the bars in the lobby and pool area, the second source said Wednesday.",
"Guests both days overheard Houston loudly complaining about her drinks, accusing bartenders of \"watering down\" or \"putting too much ice\" in them, the source said.",
"Other guests expressed concern about Houston's erratic behavior, according to the source.",
"Her disheveled appearance, including mismatched clothing, suggested to them that she was intoxicated.",
"The source said Houston was seen jumping in and out of the pool and doing somersaults in the pool area.",
"Saturday, the day she died, Houston was seen drinking at the pool in the morning, although the source noted witnesses said her behavior did not appear erratic.",
"Houston's death certificate, filed Wednesday, listed her cause of death as \"deferred,\" meaning a determination is delayed pending more information.",
"Speculation has grown while authorities await the outcome of toxicology tests that could take weeks.",
"\"I know there are reports that she maybe was drowned or did she overdose, but we won't make a final determination until all the tests are in,\" Winter said earlier.",
"He ruled out foul play and said there were no injuries to Houston's body.",
"Houston's battles with drug addiction had cast a shadow in recent years over her impressive singing voice and her talent.",
"However, a close family friend told CNN Tuesday that Houston had not used \"hard drugs\" for several years, although she was taking medication for a throat infection and Xanax or a similar drug for anxiety and to help her sleep.",
"The friend said Houston was also known to have a drink if she went out.",
"In Newark, New Jersey, fans left balloons, candles and photographs of the singer in front of the church where her funeral will take place Saturday.",
"At New Hope Baptist Church, the Newark house of worship where Houston sang as a child, preparations were under way for the private, invitation-only service.",
"Actor Kevin Costner, who starred with Houston in the 1992 hit movie \"The Bodyguard,\" will speak at her funeral, according to a source with knowledge of the funeral plans.",
"The ceremony will feature performances by Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys and Aretha Franklin, who is Houston's godmother, a Houston representative said.",
"Singer Roberta Flack will attend, but it was not known Thursday whether she would perform.",
"Houston's former husband, Bobby Brown will attend and perform later in the day with his group New Edition.",
"Brown considers performing as therapy to get him through a difficult time, a source close to him said.",
"Houston's funeral will be broadcast Saturday .",
"Samuel DiMaio, Newark police director, told reporters Thursday his advice to fans and curious members of the public was to stay home and watch the ceremony on television, as they will not be able to get close to the church.",
"The service is expected to be made available for television and web streaming, Houston's publicist said.",
"A perimeter will be set up for four blocks in two directions, and two blocks in the other directions, DiMaio said.",
"The closest the public will be able to get is a staging area two blocks away.",
"Although the family is not commenting on Houston's burial location, her death certificate filed Wednesday in Los Angeles lists it as Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey.",
"New Jersey Gov.",
"Chris Christie announced earlier this week that he plans to have the state's flags fly at half-staff on Friday.",
"Since then, Christie has been standing ground against critics who disagree with his choice to use a tribute typically used to honor fallen soldiers or first responders.",
"One Twitter user weighed in, \"Our flag is to be used to honor true American heroes, the ones you just disrespected.\"",
"To that response, Christie seemed to agree to disagree.",
"\"Many in the state are mourning the loss of a cultural icon in NJ's history,\" he wrote.",
"\"We are recognizing her for those contributions.\"",
"Educators and Houston friends in East Orange, New Jersey, where Houston attended school.",
"are firm in the their recollections.",
"\"She was a beautiful little girl, very quiet,\" said Henry Hamilton, who was Houston's principal while she was at Franklin Elementary School.",
"\"She was well-respected and never came to the office for discipline problems.\"",
"The school is now called the Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts.",
"Childhood friend Erica Taylor said the Houston residence was popular in the summertime: It was the only one to have a built-in swimming pool.",
"\"We would talk about boys and what we were doing over the summer and how it was just fun to be in the pool,\" said Taylor.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Kareen Wynter, Ross Levitt, Gary Tuchman, Stan Wilson, Alan Duke, Denise Quan and Deb Feyerick contributed to this report."
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"Investigators trying to speed up toxicology results, source says .",
"New Jersey governor catches heat on flags flying half-staff Friday .",
"Police advise Houston fans to watch funeral on TV, Internet .",
"Residents of East Orange, New Jersey, recall Houston's school days ."
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"Tegucigalpa, Honduras (CNN) -- The death toll from a prison fire in central Honduras rose to 382 Thursday, as new details emerged about what happened when flames tore through the overcrowded facility.",
"Officials transported bodies from the prison in Comayagua to the capital, Tegucigalpa, where investigators worked to identify the victims.",
"The cause of the fire remained unknown, and the federal government asked for patience during its inquiry.",
"But desperate families said they didn't want to wait to recover the remains of their loved ones.",
"\"What we are hoping for is that they give them to us so we can leave because we cannot stand the hunger, too,\" said Francisca Gomez, the sister of one of the victims.",
"\"We have our children with us and you know that we've been here waiting and no one gives us answers.\"",
"The Comayagua fire department gave the new death toll, and said that it remained unknown if others escaped or would be added to the casualty list.",
"The hypothesis that a mattress fire started the blaze was gaining traction, fire operations chief Jorge Turcios said Thursday.",
"Comayagua's governor said she received a call from an inmate inside the prison reporting the fire.",
"\"What I know, according to what I've been told, is that someone lit a mattress on fire and said, 'We're all going to die,'\" Gov.",
"Paola Castro said.",
"Inmates have also complained that guards were slow to open doors for them to escape.",
"Prisoners broke out of the facility any way they could, one survivor said.",
"\"The authorities should have opened the gates,\" said Odalis Aleyda Najera, a relative of a victim.",
"\"It is preferable to face the responsibility for a mass escape of prisoners and avoid situations like this where there are more than 300 dead inmates.\"",
"Outrage over the fire increased after the president of the country's supreme court admitted that only 40% of the inmates in the prison had been convicted.",
"The majority were awaiting trial or waiting for charges to be filed against them.",
"\"Honduras passed an anti-gang law, and what it allowed police to do is to sweep anybody off the streets ... who they had a suspicion was a member of a gang, but really had no proof.",
"So the prison population swelled,\" said Vikki Gass of the Washington Office on Latin America.",
"\"And so in the case of Comayagua, you don't have enough magistrates or judges to process the people who are being detained.\"",
"Authorities have not determined what caused the fire, but the nation's electric utility will review wiring in all prison facilities as a \"preventative measure,\" Honduran President Porfirio Lobo said, \"because that can be one of the causes of these types of disasters.\"",
"The prison facility was well over capacity, said Rodrigo Escobar Gil of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.",
"\"The prisoners slept on the floor and they had to share cells in truly deplorable conditions,\" he said.",
"At the request of Honduran officials, arson experts from the United States were expected to arrive in Honduras Thursday to lend a hand, Turcios said.",
"The team from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will reconstruct the scene, conduct interviews and sift through debris to obtain evidence and determine the origin of the blaze, the agency said in a statement.",
"Teams from El Salvador, Chile and Mexico were also expected to help Honduran authorities.",
"Tuesday night's blaze was the third fatal prison fire in recent years in the country.",
"In 2003, 61 prisoners were killed in a fire at a prison in La Ceiba.",
"In 2004, 107 died in a fire at a San Pedro Sula prison.",
"The U.S. State Department published a report last April criticizing conditions at Honduras' 24 prisons.",
"Prisoners \"suffered from severe overcrowding, malnutrition, and lack of adequate sanitation,\" the report said, citing human rights groups.",
"CNN's Carol Cratty, Brooke Baldwin and Camilo Egana contributed to this report."
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"The government is focusing on transporting the bodies of the victims .",
"The theory that a mattress fire started the blaze is gaining ground .",
"An official says only 40% of the inmates in the prison were actually convicted ."
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"(CNN) -- Representatives of India and Pakistan on Tuesday will hold the second day of two-day talks on conventional and nuclear weapons, Indian officials said.",
"No major developments were expected from the high-level talks, which are being held in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.",
"But the discussions are aimed at building confidence between the two nuclear powers, according to a statement from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs.",
"Dialogue will help the countries understand each other's nuclear doctrine, Pakistan's state-run agency cited foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit as saying.",
"India and Pakistan have fought three wars since the partition of the Asian subcontinent in 1947.",
"Two of them were over Kashmir, which is claimed by both countries.",
"Earlier this year, New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to resume peace talks frozen by the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.",
"India blamed Pakistani militants for the strike that killed more than 160 people in its financial capital.",
"In July, both nations vowed they would not allow their relationship to slide backward again.",
"In 2004, the nations agreed to negotiations that cover eight issues, including Kashmir, terrorism and Pakistan's concerns over river dams on the Indian side of the border.",
"Pakistan sees them as a threat to its water supplies.",
"CNN's Aliza Kassim contributed to this report."
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"No major developments are expected from the high-level talks .",
"The discussions are aimed at building confidence between the two nuclear powers .",
"The two countries have fought three wars since the partition of the Asian subcontinent in 1947 ."
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"(CNN) -- Nature abhors a vacuum but terrorism relishes one.",
"And Iraq appears to be offering new space for al Qaeda and other militant groups, as political rivalries and sectarian animosities deepen.",
"The coordinated bomb explosions across Baghdad Thursday -- which killed more than 60 people -- bear the hallmark of Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), which is closely associated with al Qaeda.",
"No other group in Iraq has shown itself capable of such synchronized suicide attacks.",
"Some, but not all, of the bombings were in Shiite neighborhoods; frequently al Qaeda's targets appear indiscriminate as part of a strategy to sow fear and stir sectarian tensions.",
"The attacks come as Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, demands the surrender of Iraq's Sunni Vice-President, Tareq al Hashimi, on charges that he ordered bombings and assassinations.",
"Hashimi has taken refuge in the northern Kurdish-administered part of Iraq, and the country's always-fragile tripartite balance now appears to be in grave danger -- with the restraining effect of a U.S. military presence gone.",
"Ramzy Mardini, of the Institute for the Study of War, believes the presence of U.S. troops helped stabilize Iraq's political discourse, and \"their premature removal from the political space has altered the manner on which Iraq's actors interact.\"",
"But even before their departure, there were ominous signs, as two largely Sunni provinces declared their intent to become autonomous regions.",
"Those moves appeared to have the support -- or at least sympathy -- of Vice-President Hashemi.",
"Al Qaeda in Iraq has shown before that one of its aims is to spark sectarian bloodshed between Iraq's Sunnis and Shiites.",
"Under the leadership of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, it carried out a double bombing of one of Shiite Islam's most holy places -- the Askariya shrine in Samarra -- in February 2006.",
"The plan nearly worked: there were retaliatory attacks against Sunni mosques and for nearly two years Iraq was mired in sectarian bloodletting.",
"In words that may apply equally today, Iraq's national security adviser at the time, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, said: \"The main aim of these terrorist groups is to drag Iraq into a civil war.\"",
"While political violence in Iraq is nowhere near its peak of 2006-07, it has never gone away.",
"ISI regrouped after the death of Zarqawi, and after losing support within the Sunni community because of its vicious attacks on civilians.",
"Iraqi officials speak of a \"third generation\" of al Qaeda in Iraq, with fewer foreign fighters and more battle-hardened Iraqi Sunnis.",
"Analysts say ISI has turned to bank raids and other forms of crime to finance its activities, and is targeting police patrols in areas where it is strong, largely north of Baghdad.",
"U.S. officials say that unlike al Qaeda under Zarqawi, the group no longer holds swathes of territory, but acts in smaller cells.",
"It is strongest in the city of Mosul, 260 miles north of Baghdad and one of Iraq's many sectarian faultlines.",
"The city is a base for ISI but rarely suffers from its violence.",
"But it has shown it can operate across the country.",
"On one day in August, 13 people were killed and dozens injured in attacks blamed on ISI.",
"Two bombs in Baghdad killed 18 people at the end of October.",
"U.S. officials expected ISI to step up its campaign on the heels of a U.S. withdrawal.",
"The former spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq, Major General Jeffrey Buchanan said: \"It's likely they will try to harbor their resources for a significant series of attacks after the U.S. military withdrawal if for no other reason than to demonstrate their relevance.\"",
"He added that \"since August al Qaeda has been working really hard to foment sectarian conflict,\" and warned that \"if the Iraqi security forces are not able to put pressure on them, they could regenerate.\"",
"But when the U.S. military left Iraq, it took its intelligence-gathering with it -- making the job of Iraqi counter-terrorism units more challenging still.",
"\"Without all the enablers we provide, there's no doubt there will be less capability than there is right now,\" Buchanan said a few weeks ago.",
"Shiite militias -- often supported by Iran -- have emerged to counter the threat of Sunni militancy.",
"And as Iraqi security forces have gone after Sunni militants, the balance of power has tipped toward these Shiite militias -- groups like Asaib ahl-Haq and Kata'ib Hezballah.",
"U.S. officials contend that Shiite groups sponsored by Iran were a greater danger than al Qaeda to the country's stability.",
"Despite his good relations with Iran, Prime Minister Maliki is well aware that its influence is a double-edged sword -- and is anxious that Iraq does not become a battleground between the Islamic republic and the Sunni monarchy in Saudi Arabia.",
"\"We do not allow Iran to use us against others that Iran has problems with, and we do not allow others to use us against Iran,\" he said last week.",
"But Iraq has little control over its own borders, and a former U.S. military officer who served in Iraq told CNN last week that its security forces were still largely divided on sectarian lines.",
"The situation in neighboring Syria adds another dimension to the situation.",
"Thousands of Sunnis took refuge there after the fall of Saddam Hussein, but if the regime of President Bashar al Assad falls, they may need to return home.",
"Maliki has already said that Assad's fall could set off a regional sectarian crisis -- one reason perhaps that his government has opposed Arab League sanctions against Syria.",
"And some Iraqi Shiites see a Saudi hand at work in Syria.",
"For its part, Iran has all the more reason to reinforce its influence in Iraq should its long-time Arab ally in Damascus be ousted.",
"This regional volatility only adds fuel to an always combustible internal situation.",
"Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said after a visit to Baghdad: \"The leadership of Iraq is committed to a strong and sovereign and independent Iraq and for that reason I am confident they are going to succeed.\"",
"Al Qaeda and its enemies at the other end of the religious spectrum are doing their best to prove him wrong."
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"Bombings are an indication that terror groups in Iraq are finding space to operate .",
"Attack came as Iraq's Shiite prime minister orders arrest of Sunni vice-president .",
"Iraqi officials speak of a new al Qaeda made up of Sunni fighters; U.S. officials say Shiite groups sponsored by Iran are a bigger danger .",
"Meanwhile the prime minister does not want Iraq to be a proxy battleground for Saudi Arabia and Iran ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester City's unbeaten Premier League run came to an end on Monday as Chelsea blew the English title race wide open with a 2-1 victory at home to their 10-man opponents.",
"City traveled to London seeking to re-establish a five-point lead over local rivals Manchester United, and made the perfect start when Mario Balotelli scored in just the second minute.",
"But Raul Meireles equalized in the pouring rain on 34, and the visitors had defender Gael Clichy sent off for second booking just before the hour mark.",
"Substitute Frank Lampard then condemned Roberto Mancini's men to a first defeat in 15 league games with an 83rd-minute penalty that lifted Chelsea up to third place above London rivals Tottenham on goal difference.",
"Is Mancini the right man for Manchester City?",
"\"The Chelsea players after the game were really happy to beat us.",
"That shows we are a top team at this moment and that all the teams want to beat us, and this is important for us,\" manager Mancini said.",
"\"We worked well up to now and now we should continue.",
"I hope that we can go another 14 games without losing.\"",
"City went into the game having been eliminated from the European Champions League at the group stage despite beating Bayern Munich in Wednesday's final game.",
"Balotelli was caught breaking a club curfew before this match, but the Italy striker showed his undoubted on-field class with the opening goal -- his 11th this season.",
"Sergio Aguero showed great skill to turn inside Chelsea captain John Terry and thread a perfect pass for the 21-year-old, who held off Branislav Ivanovic and coolly slotted past goalkeeper Petr Cech for his eighth in the league.",
"Chelsea's Anelka to join Chinese club .",
"City could have had a 14th-minute penalty when Jose Bosingwa appeared to bring down David Silva, but the referee decided otherwise in a decision which manager Mancini later said was the turning point in the match.",
"Chelsea went through to the last 16 of the Champions League last week with an emphatic win over Valencia which relieved the pressure on manager Andre Villas-Boas.",
"However, he was on the defensive after that victory and accused the media of unfair treatment -- being unhappy with criticism of the form that left Chelsea 10 points adrift of City going into Monday's match.",
"The return to form shown against the Spaniards continued as young striker Daniel Sturridge gathered a superb long pass from Terry and raced past Clichy down the left before cutting back to Meireles, and the Portugal midfielder volleyed the equalizer.",
"Clichy's night ended in the 58th minute when the France international fouled Brazil midfielder Ramires, and Chelsea made full use of their extra man.",
"Etherington double ends Tottenham's winning run .",
"The 22-year-old Sturridge, who made his England debut last month, fired in a left-foot shot that struck the raised arm of City defender Joleon Lescott.",
"Veteran midfielder Lampard, who sat out last Tuesday's European game and this time came on to replace Meireles in the 73rd minute, stepped up and smashed the resulting penalty past England goalkeeper Joe Hart.",
"\"I went out and missed a penalty a few weeks ago and the next one is always hard to take,\" he said.",
"\"You've got to be big enough and stand up and take them, and they're the moments.",
"I was very relieved when it hit the back of the net.\"",
"The defeat means City can lose the lead on Sunday when United travel to Queens Park Rangers in the early match, then Mancini's side face another big test against in-form Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium later that day.",
"Chelsea joined Tottenham on 31 points, having played one more game ahead of their clash on December 22 -- which follows Saturday's trip to lowly Wigan .",
"\"Our objective was to shorten the distance to the leaders today, and we managed to do exactly that, but we don't take extra flavor from being the first team to beat them,\" Villas-Boas said.",
"\"We needed to do our job to get our challenge back on track, and I think it's pretty much alive now.\""
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"Chelsea climb to third place after beating 10-man Manchester City 2-1 .",
"City's Premier League lead chopped to two points after latest round of matches .",
"Mario Balotelli puts visitors ahead before Raul Meireles levels for Chelsea .",
"City's Gael Clichy is sent off in second half and sub Frank Lampard nets late penalty ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- About 400 members of an exiled Iranian opposition group who are the first to leave a long-term camp in Iraq under a U.N. plan criticized their treatment and the conditions at the new temporary site Saturday.",
"The group left Camp Ashraf at midnight following 12 hours of inspections and checks, Shahin Gobadi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement.",
"When they arrived seven hours later at the new site, a former U.S. military base near Baghdad International Airport called Camp Liberty, the group discovered a heavy presence of police.",
"Another inspection was then demanded, prompting the residents to protest what they consider \"degrading, humiliating and inhumane treatment\" and the obstructive behavior of the Iraqi forces by refusing to leave the transit buses, Gobadi said.",
"\"The preliminary reports indicate that Camp Liberty is a prison from all aspects,\" he added.",
"The group's relocation to the new site was agreed between the United Nations, Iraqi authorities, the United States and the European Union.",
"From there, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees will begin efforts to resettle the group outside of the country.",
"Martin Kobler, the U.N. secretary general's special representative and head of the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), was at the temporary site to welcome the new arrivals.",
"\"This is the first step towards a better future outside Iraq,\" he said.",
"\"I look forward to their continued cooperation with the Iraqi authorities to complete the relocation without delay.\"",
"He also praised the Iraqi for having ensured the \"safe and secure relocation\" of the first group of residents and urged them to guarantee the human rights and safety of all those still to relocate.",
"Camp Ashraf has been home to members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, for more than 25 years.",
"More than 3,000 exiles, described as Iranian resistance figures and their sympathizers, live at the camp.",
"The MEK has been on the U.S. terrorism list since 1997 because of the killing of six Americans in Iran in the 1970s and an attempted attack against the Iranian mission to the United Nations in 1992.",
"However, since 2004, the United States has considered the residents of Camp Ashraf \"noncombatants\" and \"protected persons\" under the Geneva Conventions.",
"Before moving, the Camp Ashraf residents had demanded a commitment that no Iraqi police would remain inside the new site, in order to ensure the security of the residents.",
"The group believes the current regime in Iraq, under orders from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, has previously staged deadly attacks against Camp Ashraf.",
"Instead, there are several police posts inside the facility and residents must be accompanied by the police even to go to the dining area, Gobadi said.",
"\"The most important of the Ashraf residents' demands is that the police must leave the camp area and stay outside the walls,\" a statement released by the group Friday said.",
"\"This is a condition without which it will be impossible to have more people in Liberty as it will result in further confrontations, tensions and killing.\"",
"The residents also asked for guarantees with regards to the site's infrastructure -- and say these have not been met.",
"\"In a nutshell, Camp Liberty lacks the most basic international humanitarian standards and human rights standards are not met,\" the statement said.",
"The residents say the camp is much smaller than they were told it would be, and that they are being denied free movement and access to medical services.",
"The U.N.'s refugee agency confirmed that the new camp's infrastructure and facilities were in line with international humanitarian standards at the end of January, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said earlier this week.",
"Camp Ashraf was established in 1986 after former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invited members of the MEK to relocate to Iraq in an effort to undermine the Iranian government, which was then at war with Iraq.",
"Iran also considers the group to be a terrorist organization.",
"A U.N. commission on refugees has described the residents as \"formal asylum seekers\" from persecution by the regime in Iran.",
"The temporary facility, at what was formerly the U.S.-run Camp Liberty, will remain open for an unspecified period of time, though a senior U.S. administration official said in December that there were plans to keep it open until all of the camp residents were resettled.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"NEW: \"This is the first step towards a better future outside Iraq,\" a U.N. official says .",
"About 400 residents of Camp Ashraf leave for a temporary site at a former U.S. base .",
"The Iranian exiles say they are being inhumanely treated by Iraqi authorities there .",
"Under the plan, the U.N. intends eventually to resettle the group to third countries ."
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"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Police and protesters clashed across Nigeria on Monday amid a nationwide strike and widespread protests over a government decision that more than doubled fuel prices in the largely impoverished country.",
"Among other incidents, police reportedly fired on protesters in the northern Nigerian state of Kano, injuring at least 13 people, according to a physician who was among the protesters.",
"Demonstrators were gathered listening to speeches when police \"suddenly came and some were shooting and some were throwing tear gas,\" Shehi Ali, vice chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association, told CNN.",
"Ali said one protester, a 12-year-old boy, was shot in the neck.",
"Another protester was shot in the groin, he said.",
"\"We were trying to re-enact what took place in Egypt at Tahrir Square,\" Ali said of what had been peaceful protests.",
"Kano Police Commissioner Ibrahim Idris denied that officers fired on protesters.",
"He said that officers were forced to use tear gas on \"miscreants and drug addicts\" who had tried to storm the governor's residence.",
"\"These people were trying to take advantage of the situation and loot, they are criminals,\" he told CNN.",
"The protests have otherwise been largely peaceful, and officers were working alongside the Nigeria Labour Congress, one of the groups staging the nationwide strikes, Idris said.",
"Elsewhere, Sanya Femi, a union official, said three union members had been killed by police gunfire during a peaceful protest in Lagos.",
"But Sunday Salailo, a trade union president, said he had no reports of union members dying.",
"There was no immediate comment from Nigerian authorities on those accounts of violence.",
"Lagos, a city of nearly 8 million people, was eerily quiet Monday afternoon.",
"With many businesses shut down amid a call for a nationwide strike, few cars traveled the city's normally teeming roads.",
"Residents had packed stores on Sunday, laying in supplies in anticipation of the protests and strikes, The Guardian newspaper of Nigeria reported.",
"The commander of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ade Abolurin, deployed 43,000 members of the paramilitary force and 160,000 volunteers in response to the planned strike and protests, warning protesters \"against indulging in criminal activities,\" according to a notice posted on the organization's Facebook page.",
"The protests and strikes follow the government's January 1 decision to remove fuel subsidies in the country, which is Africa's largest oil producer.",
"Read about what is behind the fuel strike .",
"Citizens of Africa's most populous nation have staged \"Occupy Nigeria\" mass demonstrations since the decision, with police responding forcefully in some cases.",
"\"I am not an economist, but it is clear common sense that the removal of fuel subsidy, even if it seems to be the easiest solution, is not even an option,\" said Hadiza Halliru, an Abuja protester.",
"\"The fuel hike, which has doubled and even tripled in some states, would affect not only transportation but the price of foodstuff, clothing, any form of direct labor, construction costs.",
"But salaries still remain the same, which means everyone who directly pays bills will be affected, especially the middle class and the poor.\"",
"Many Nigerians view the subsidy as the only benefit of living in an oil-producing country that has little infrastructure, poor roads, high unemployment and intermittent electric power.",
"Are you there? Share your story .",
"\"Though we know that in the long run, removal of subsidy will help the economy, for now it is a high-profile lifestyle that is unbearable for most Nigerians, and soon the poorer ones will die out,\" said protester Diane Awunah, who lives in Abuja.",
"Money saved by removing the subsidy will help improve public amenities and build much-needed infrastructure, said Reuben Abati, a spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan.",
"But there is a widespread lack of trust in the government to provide the infrastructure -- Nigeria is regularly voted among the most corrupt countries in the world.",
"The nation produces around 2.4 million barrels of crude oil a day, but it imports roughly 70% of its gasoline from countries as far afield as the United Kingdom and Venezuela, because most of its own refineries are inoperative after years of corruption-fueled neglect.",
"In a televised address, Jonathan urged citizens to avoid \"mindless acts of violence\" and said he empathized with those protesting against the government's decision to cut fuel subsidies.",
"\"If I were in your shoes, I probably would ... hold the same critical views about government,\" the president said Saturday.",
"The government has shunned calls to resume the subsidy, and it has ordered the distribution of mass transit buses to major cities.",
"Jonathan said the decision to cut the subsidies will benefit the public in the future.",
"The U.S. Embassy in Abuja warned Americans to stockpile food, conserve fuel and delay travel while the strike and protests are ongoing.",
"CNN's Stephanie Busari, CNN iReport's Christina Zdanowicz and journalist Vladimir Duthiers contributed to this report."
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"NEW: At least 13 injured in fuel subsidy protest in northern Nigeria .",
"Conflicting reports say some protesters have died in clashes with police .",
"The government's decision to end the subsidy has more than doubled fuel prices .",
"Government: Subsidy removal will help fund infrastructure ."
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